Eminent social reformer Swami Dayanand Saraswati was remembered on his birth anniversary (February 12).
Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883)
- He was born in Gujarat.
- He established Arya Samaj in the year 1875.
- He opposed the evil practicesof child marriage and enforced widowhood.
- He was in favour of an educational system which would emphasize on grammar, philosophy, Vedas, sciences, medicine, music and art.
- He visualized a polity which would be the embodiment of decentralization (a vast commonwealth with the village as the unit).
- Important Literary work: Satyartha Prakasha.
- Spiritual works: He put forward the Vedic concept of Traitavada.
- The concept of three eternal things (Ishwara, Jiva, Prakriti).
