Punya Tithi of Swami Dayananda: Haiku on tenets of Arya Samaj

October 30 is the death anniversary day or Punya Tithi of of Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883) who was born 12 February. He was a great Vedic philosopher, social reformer and founder of the Arya Samaj.

As we remember him, let us revisit the basic tenets of Arya Samaj through the following haiku.

Haiku:

Faith in the Vedas

As scriptures of life's truth

Is humans' Dharma

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Know Veda-tenets

Read, recite, hear Vedas

To learn and live by

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God is existent -

Omniscient and immanent -

To be prayed, worshiped

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Ego and doer-ship

They are ignorance, darkness

Dispel your darkness

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Formless Holy God -

The real cause of true knowledge,

Learning potential

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Do good to all beings

Guided by love and righteousness

Live simple, care for all

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Just, fair social life

With soulfulness is the aim

That is our Dharma