Dayananda Saraswati Quotes
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.
Saraswati, Dayananda. Light of Truth. Translated by Chiranjiva Bharadwaja, Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, 1915, p. 377.
Of the five greatest Muslim crimes, two of them, the third and the fourth are committed by every suicide bomber. Terrorists and their apologists who justify suicide bombing argue that in defensive of Islam these crimes are no longer crimes. Most modern Muslim theologians believe that the course the suicide bomber murders his own species and commit suicide he is acting completely contrary to Islam. This is one of the classic sports between modern interpretations of Islam and the radical fundamentalists.
In 1989 the Chicago Institute of the arts exhibited a controversial work where the American flag was draped on the floor that appeared to invite patrons to walk on it. The Senator introduced a bill making it a crime to display the American flag:
Luther’s attitude toward the Catholic mass was the main reason the Protestant churches abolished the mass.
Dayananda Saraswati (pronunciation (help·info)) was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Subsequently, the philosopher and President of India, S. Radhakrishnan called him one of the "makers of Modern India", as did Sri Aurobindo.
