Arya Samaj
ārya samājThe reform movement founded by Dayananda Saraswati in 1875, calling for a return to the Vedas alone and practising shuddhi.
Where this term appears
- The Colonial Encounter and Orientalism History
Dayananda Saraswati's Arya Samaj, founded in 1875, answered with the cry "go back to the Vedas," rejecting later accretion in favour of an imagined Vedic original, a move that borrowed the Orientalists' own gol…
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
Dayananda Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875 with the cry "back to the Vedas." Ramakrishna's disciple Vivekananda carried a confident Vedanta to the West, and his address to the World's Parliament of Reli…
- The Reformers: How the Nineteenth Century Remade Hinduism History
Dayananda and the return to the Vedas A generation later came a reformer who reached back further still, and in a fiercer key. Dayananda Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
Vajasaneyi Samhita 26.2 says the Vedic word is spoken to the people, "to brahmana and rajanya, to shudra and to arya." This is the verse the Arya Samaj built its case on.
- What is Puja? Worship
The Arya Samaj, founded by Dayananda Saraswati in 1875, rejects murti-puja outright.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…ovements around Rammohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj, Dayananda Sarasvati's Arya Samaj and, in his way, Vivekananda, promoted a purified Vedic Hinduism and cast Tantra as its dark opposite, the thing respectable Hind…
- 'Idol worship' is a mistranslation Journal
…at runs through much of nirguna devotion, the reformers of the modern Arya Samaj who rejected image-worship outright, the long insistence of the philosophers that the highest realisation leaves all forms behind…
- The bazaar press Treatise
One department is dayānandamatakhaṇḍana , refutations of Dayananda Saraswati's doctrine. The Arya Samaj was a market segment.