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Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of Brahmo Samaj. He was the foremost of modern social reformers. He was born in1774 A.D in Bengal. His remarkable influence was apparent in the field of politics, public administration and education as well as religion. He is most known for his efforts to abolish the practice of sati, a Hindu funeral custom […]

Tilak was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a middle class family. He was one of the first and strongest proponents for Swaraj (complete independence) in Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of “Hindu Nationalism”. He was a multifaceted personality He was a national leader, social reformer, freedom fighter and a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Mathematics, Law & […]

Our kids shivir at siddhachalam was success. Kids learned about Freedom Fighters and Religious Leaders. The topic for this month is “Freedom Fighters”. Kids can write an article on any or all of the following leaders ( we covered all of them at hawan camp ) 1. Chhatarpati Shivaji Maharaj 2. Bhagat Singh 3. Raani Lakshami Bai

Goswami Tulsidas was an Awadhi poet and philosopher. He was born in Rajapur, India in 1532 A.D. during the reign of Akbar. Tulsidas wrote twelve books and is considered the greatest and most famous of Hindi poets. He is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the author of Ramayana written in Sanskrit. The most famous book is his Ramayana in […]

Born on February 22, 1856 at village Talwan in Jalandhar district of the Punjab province, Swami Shraddhanand ji was named as Brihaspati and Munshiram. The young boy, a pampered child, moved from place to place on his dad’s transfers and was bereft of formal education in the formative years of life. Nonetheless, he learnt a lot in the school of […]

Shankaracharya’s name stands out very prominently in so far as Hindu religion is concerned. Before the advent of Shankaracharya, Buddhism had a strong hold in India. Shankaracharya propagated the Hindu-Veda Dharma or Vedanta. Hence he was known as the World Teacher or Jagad Guru. Shankara was born in very poor family 1400 year ago in South India in a village […]

Guru Nanak ji was a poet singer who founded Sikhism and was the first of the ten gurus of Sikhs. He was born in 1469 in Talwandi, Punjab (in present day Pakistan). He preached that there was one God. He was able to remove many objectionable religious practices. Both Hindus and Muslims came under the influence of his teachings and […]

Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824 – 1883) was an important Hindu religious scholar born in Gujarat, India. He was known as the founder of Arya Samaj. He was a sanayasi from his boyhood. Throughout his life, he preached against many Hindu traditions, which he felt were dogmatic and oppressive. These included traditions like child marriage, caste by birth, exclusion of females […]

Continuing with our 2007 topic of “Great Religious Leaders and Philosophers of India”, this month, we will cover teachings of one of influential religious leader of Nineteenth century, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. He fought against ritualism and superstition that was wide spread and all pervasive in India . As such, all of our religious leaders addressed various aspects of religion, spiritualism […]