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एक ऐसे योद्धा, जिन्होंने अपने जीवनकाल में महाराणा बनने के बाद १८ वर्षों तक संघर्ष करते हुए १७ बड़ी लड़ाईंयों में बहादुरी दिखाई व १०० से अधिक मुगल थानों पर विजय प्राप्त की और लगभग डेढ़ वर्ष तक २० हजार मेवाडी बहादुरों ने तकरीबन ४ लाख से अधिक फौजी दस्तों से छापामार संघर्ष जारी रखा

" चक्रवीर महाराणा अमरसिंह जी मेवाड़"

* जन्म : १६ मार्च, १५५९ ई.

मेवाड़ के महाराणा अमरसिंह जी का परिचय :- ये वीर शिरोमणि महाराणा प्रताप व महारानी अजबदे बाई पंवार के पुत्र थे। इनका जन्म 16 मार्च, 1559 ई. को हुआ था। महाराणा अमरसिंह का ननिहाल बिजोलिया था। इनके नाना जी राव माम्रख/राम रख पंवार थे। महाराणा अमरसिंह के दादाजी महाराणा उदयसिंह जी थे।

महाराणा अमरसिंह के जन्म के विषय में कुछ मतभेद हैं। जनश्रुति के अनुसार इनका जन्म मचीन्द गांव में हुआ, जो कि वर्तमान राजसमंद जिले में स्थित है। यह पहाड़ी क्षेत्र है, जहां महाराणा प्रताप के महलों के खंडहर हैं। लेकिन यह तथ्य इसलिए उचित प्रतीत नहीं होता, क्योंकि महाराणा प्रताप मचीन्द गांव में छापामार युद्धों के दौरान रहे थे। इसलिए 1559 ई. में चित्तौड़गढ़ के महलों में ही महाराणा अमरसिंह का जन्म हुआ होगा।

इतिहास में महाराणा अमरसिंह का स्थान :- 

महाराणा अमरसिंह के संघर्ष, बलिदान, वीरता, साहस के साथ न्याय नहीं हुआ। इनके बारे में सिर्फ एक बात मशहूर है कि इन्होंने मुगलों से सन्धि की। बेशक महाराणा अमरसिंह ने मुगलों से सन्धि की, लेकिन 1615 ई. में। जबकि उन्होंने राज्यभार 1597 ई. में संभाला था। बीच के इन 18 वर्षों में महाराणा अमरसिंह ने जो भीषण संघर्ष किया, वो आज महज़ कुछ ग्रन्थों तक ही सीमित है।

इन ग्रन्थों से कोई बात यदि बाहर निकली, तो वो है मुगलों से सन्धि की। निस्संदेह महाराणा अमरसिंह महान शासकों में से एक थे, जिन्होंने अपने पिता की भांति अनेक युद्धों में पराक्रम दिखाया और लगातार मुगल सल्तनत के विरुद्ध संघर्ष को जारी रखा।

कर्नल जेम्स टॉड लिखता है कि “राणा अमर अपने पिता प्रताप व अपने कुल का सुयोग्य वंशधर था। वह वीर पुरुष के समस्त शारीरिक और मानसिक गुणों से सम्पन्न तथा मेवाड़ के राजाओं में सबसे अधिक ऊंचा और बलिष्ठ था। वह उदारता और पराक्रम आदि सदगुणों के कारण सरदारों को और न्याय व दयालुता के कारण अपनी प्रजा को प्रिय था।”

प्रसिद्ध इतिहासकार ओझा लिखते हैं कि “महाराणा अमरसिंह नीतिज्ञ, दयालु, विद्वानों के आश्रयदाता, न्यायी व सुकवि थे। ये अपने पिता महाराणा प्रताप से भी अधिक लड़ाईयाँ लड़े, किन्तु अन्त में मजबूरी के चलते सन्धि के कारण इनकी ख्याति भारत में वैसी न हुई जैसी इनके पिता की है।”

कविराजा श्यामलदास ग्रन्थ वीरविनोद में लिखते हैं कि “महाराणा अमरसिंह का कद लम्बा, रंग गेहुवां, आँखें बड़ी, चेहरा रौबदार और मिजाज़ तेज़ था। वे दयावान, सच्चे व मिलनसार, दोस्ती के पूरे, इक्रार को पूरा करने वाले थे।”

महाराणा अमरसिंह के इतिहास को बहुत वर्षों से भ्रमित किया जाता रहा है, जिससे कई किस्से ऐसे भी जुड़ गए जिनका कोई अस्तित्व नहीं है और बेहतर शोध से उनका झूठ भी पकड़ना संभव है। ऐसी घटनाएं समकालीन ग्रंथों में नहीं मिलती, बल्कि बाद में प्रचलन में आई हैं, जो कि मेवाड़-मुगल सन्धि के कारण महाराणा अमरसिंह को कमतर आंककर लिखी गई हैं।

महाराणा अमरसिंह

महाराणा अमरसिंह का कुंवरपदे काल (राज्याभिषेक से पूर्व) :- इनका संघर्ष 1567 ई. से ही शुरु हुआ, जब चित्तौड़ का तीसरा शाका हुआ व इन्हें चित्तौड़ छोड़ना पड़ा, तब इनकी उम्र 8 वर्ष थी। 1572 ई. में महाराणा प्रताप का विधिवत राजतिलक कुम्भलगढ़ में हुआ। इस अवसर पर कुँवर अमरसिंह भी उपस्थित थे।

महाराणा अमरसिंह के कुछ वर्ष बाद लिखे गए ग्रंथ राणा रासो में लिखा है कि “महाराणा प्रताप के राजतिलक दरबार में शत्रुओं के देशों का दग्धकर्ता, उन्नतकाय, लंबी भुजाओं वाला युवराज अमरसिंह भी उपस्थित था। युवराज अमरसिंह साक्षात अमर देवता का अवतार था। युवा होने पर उसकी आँखों में लालिमा छा गई।”

अप्रैल, 1573 ई. में महाराणा प्रताप को सन्धि के लिए मनाने जब कुंवर मानसिंह कछवाहा उदयपुर आए, तब महाराणा प्रताप ने अपने 14 वर्षीय पुत्र कुंवर अमरसिंह को वार्ता हेतु भेजा था।

सितम्बर-अक्टूबर, 1573 ई. में महाराणा प्रताप को सन्धि हेतु मनाने के लिए राजा भगवानदास कछवाहा गोगुन्दा आए। अकबर के दरबारी लेखक अबुल फजल ने अकबरनामा में सन्धि प्रयासों की असफलता को छुपाने के लिए मनगढंत कहानी लिखी।

अबुल फजल लिखता है कि “राजा भगवानदास जब राणा को मनाने गोगुन्दा पहुंचा, तो राणा ने उसकी बड़ी खातिरदारी की। राणा का दिल उजाड़ था, इसलिए उसने खुद ना आकर अपने बेटे अमरसिंह को राजा भगवानदास के साथ शाही दरबार में भेजा। कुछ वक्त बाद शहंशाह ने अमर को फिर से मेवाड़ भेज दिया”

अबुल फजल की इस बात को गलत साबित करने वाला खुद जहांगीर था। तुजुक-ए-जहांगीरी में जहांगीर लिखता है कि “राणा अमरसिंह ने कभी किसी बादशाह को नहीं देखा। उसने और उसके बाप-दादों ने घमंड और पहाड़ी मकामों के भरोसे किसी बादशाह के पास हाजिर होकर ताबेदारी नहीं की है”

1576 ई. में 17 वर्षीय कुंवर अमरसिंह ने हल्दीघाटी युद्ध में भाग नहीं लिया, क्योंकि महाराणा प्रताप ने युद्ध से पहले रनिवास की सुरक्षा का उत्तरदायित्व कुंवर अमरसिंह को दिया था। जेम्स विन्सेट लिखता है कि “हल्दीघाटी युद्ध में रुपा नाम का एक भील युद्ध की शुरुआत में ही भाग गया था, जिसे कुंवर अमरसिंह ने उदयपुर के राजमहलों में प्रतिशोध स्वरुप मार डाला।”

उदयपुर राजमहल का भीतरी दृश्य

1576 ई. के बाद जब महाराणा प्रताप ने जंगलों में जीवन बिताया, तब कुंवर अमरसिंह ने भी इस संघर्षपूर्ण जीवन को स्वीकार किया। तलवारबाजी और भाला चलाने की कला उन्होंने स्वयं अपने महान पिता महाराणा प्रताप से सीखी। महाराणा प्रताप से उनको छापामार युद्धों में काम में ली जाने वाली कूटनीति भी सीखने को मिली।

1580 ई. में अब्दुर्रहीम खान-ए-खाना की बेगमों को बन्दी बनाना :- रहीम ने शेरपुर में अपने परिवार व सेना सहित पड़ाव डाला। रहीम अपने परिवार को एक फौजी टुकड़ी की निगरानी में रखकर खुद फौज समेत महाराणा प्रताप के पीछे गया। इस वक्त कुंवर अमरसिंह गोगुन्दा में थे। कुंवर अमरसिंह को जब इस बात का पता चला, तो उन्होंने रहीम का ध्यान महाराणा से हटाने के लिए शेरपुर पर हमला कर दिया।

कुंवर अमरसिंह शाही फौजी टुकड़ी को पराजित करके रहीम की बेगमों को बन्दी बनाकर महाराणा प्रताप के समक्ष प्रस्तुत हुए। इन बेगमों में से दो के नाम ज़ीनत व आनी बेगम है। महाराणा प्रताप ने कुंवर अमरसिंह को जोरदार फटकार लगाते हुए रहीम की बेगमों को सुरक्षित रहीम तक पहुंचाने का आदेश दिया।

मेवाड़ के ग्रंथ वीरविनोद में छापामार युद्धों के दौरान घटित एक घटना लिखी है, जो कुछ इस तरह है :- “एक दिन महाराणा प्रतापसिंह किसी पहाड़ पर फूस के झोंपड़ों में अपनी रानियों सहित रह रहे थे। मेह बरसने लगा। उस समय महाराणा एक झोंपड़ी में हाथ में तलवार लिए होशियार बैठे थे और दूसरे छप्पर में कुँवर अमरसिंह मौजूद थे। जब ऊपर से पानी टपकने लगा, तो कुंवरानी ने लंबा सांस खींचकर कहा कि हम इस दुःख से कभी पार उतरेंगे या नहीं। तब महाराजकुमार अमरसिंह ने जवाब दिया कि हम क्या करें, हम दाजीराज के बर्ख़िलाफ़ नहीं जा सकते।”

वीरविनोद में आगे लिखा है कि “कुँवर और कुंवरानी की बातें सुनकर महाराणा प्रतापसिंह ने सवेरे उठकर सब सरदारों को बुलाया और रात को सुनी हुई बात के इशारे स्वरूप कुँवर अमरसिंह को ताना मारते हुए सरदारों से कहा कि अमरसिंह तो आरामपसंद है। मेरे पीछे ये बादशाही ताबेदारी कुबूल करके खिलअत पहनेगा। यह सुनकर कुँवर अमरसिंह बहुत शर्मिंदा हुए पर कुछ न बोले, लेकिन मन में मज़बूत इरादा किया कि मैं कभी बादशाहों का फर्माबर्दार नहीं बनूंगा।”

इस घटना की वास्तविकता का कोई ठोस प्रमाण नहीं है, परन्तु यह सम्भव है कि कुँवर अमरसिंह के हृदय में उस भयंकर संघर्ष के दौरान कमजोरी के भाव आए हों। यदि इस घटना में थोड़ी भी वास्तविकता मानी जाए, तो भी ये घटना महाराणा प्रताप के दिवेर विजय अभियान से पूर्व की रही होगी। इस घटना के पश्चात कुँवर अमरसिंह ने अनेक युद्धों में महाराणा प्रताप के साथ रहकर वीरता दिखाई। ये महाराणा प्रताप का विश्वास ही था, तभी उन्होंने कुँवर अमरसिंह को दिवेर युद्ध व अन्य लड़ाइयों में मेवाड़ की सेना का नेतृत्व सौंपा।

* १५८२ ई. :- दिवेर युद्ध में सेनापति बने व अकबर के सेनापति सुल्तान खां को उसके कवच व घोड़े समेत भाले से कत्ल किया

दिवेर विजय शौर्य स्थल

महाराणा प्रताप के साथ कुँवर अमरसिंह

अक्टूबर, 1582 ई. में विजयादशमी के दिन दिवेर का भीषण युद्ध हुआ, जिसमें महाराणा प्रताप ने कुंवर अमरसिंह को मेवाड़ का सेनापति घोषित किया। अकबर के सेनापति सुल्तान खां का सामना कुंवर अमरसिंह से हुआ। कुंवर अमरसिंह ने सुल्तान खां पर भाले से भीषण प्रहार किया।

भाला इतने तेज वेग से मारा था कि सुल्तान खां के कवच, छाती व घोड़े को भेदते हुए जमीन में घुस गया और वहीं फँस गया। टोप उड्यो बख्तर उड्यो, सुल्तान खां रे जद भालो मारियो। राणो अमर यूं लड्यो दिवेर में, ज्यूं भीम लड्यो महाभारत में।।

सुल्तान खां मरने ही वाला था कि तभी वहां महाराणा प्रताप आ पहुंचे। सुल्तान खां ने कुंवर अमरसिंह को देखने की इच्छा महाराणा के सामने रखी, तो महाराणा ने किसी और राजपूत को बुलाकर सुल्तान खां से कहा कि यही अमरसिंह है। सुल्तान खां ने कहा कि नहीं ये अमरसिंह नहीं है, उसी को बुलाओ। तब महाराणा ने कुंवर अमरसिंह को बुलाया।

सुल्तान खां ने कुंवर अमरसिंह के वार की सराहना की। महाराणा ने सुल्तान खां को तकलीफ में देखकर कुंवर अमरसिंह से कहा कि ये भाला सुल्तान खां के जिस्म से निकाल लो। कुंवर अमरसिंह ने खींचा पर भाला नहीं निकला, तो महाराणा ने कहा कि पैर रखकर खींचो। तब कुंवर अमरसिंह ने सुल्तान खां की छाती पर पैर रखकर भाला निकाला।

1586 से 87 ई. के बीच मुगल थाने उठाने में महाराणा प्रताप का सहयोग :- दिवेर विजय के बाद महाराणा प्रताप ने जो 36 मुगल थाने उखाड़ फेंके थे, उनमें कुंवर अमरसिंह ही सेनापति थे। एक दिन तो कुंवर अमरसिंह ने गज़ब की तेजी दिखाते हुए 5 मुगल थाने उखाड़ फेंके। कुंवर अमरसिंह ने मोही, मदारिया, आमेट, देवगढ़ वगैरह मुगल थानों पर भी आक्रमण किए व विजयी हुए।

* १५८७ ई. :- गुजरात के किसी शाही थाने पर लूटमार की

कुँवर अमरसिंह द्वारा गुजरात के शाही थानों पर आक्रमण :- जब मेवाड़ में तैनात अधिकतर मुगल थानों पर विजय प्राप्त कर ली गई, तो महाराणा प्रताप ने कुँवर अमरसिंह के नेतृत्व में एक सेना गुजरात की तरफ भेजी। कुँवर अमरसिंह ने गुजरात के शाही थानों को चीरते हुए अद्भुत वीरता का प्रदर्शन किया और 70 हज़ार रुपए दण्डस्वरूप वसूल करके महाराणा प्रताप को भेंट किए।

* १५९९ ई. :- अकबर ने मानसिंह व अपने बेटे जहांगीर को महाराणा अमरसिंह के खिलाफ मेवाड़ भेजा

> जहांगीर ने उदयपुर पर हमला किया

महाराणा अमरसिंह ने मुगल फौज को आमेर तक खदेड़
दिया व मालपुरा (आमेर) को लूटते हुए मेवाड़ आए

* महाराणा अमरसिंह ने अपने हाथों से सुल्तान खां खोरी को मारकर बागोर पर अधिकार किया व इसी तरह रामपुरा पर भी कब्जा किया

* १६०० ई. :- अकबर ने मिर्जा शाहरुख को फौज समेत मेवाड़ भेजा, पर महाराणा के खौफ से मिर्ज़ा भागकर बांसवाड़ा चला गया

* १६०० ई. :- महाराणा अमरसिंह ने अपने हाथों से ऊँठाळा दुर्ग में तैनात कायम खां को मारकर दुर्ग पर अधिकार किया

* १६०३ ई. :- अकबर ने शहजादे जहांगीर को दोबारा मेवाड़ भेजा, पर महाराणा अमरसिंह से मिली पिछली पराजय से घबराकर वह मेवाड़ अभियान छोड़कर गुजरात चला गया।

* १६०५ ई. :- जहांगीर मुगल बादशाह बना व उसने आसफ खां और शहजादे परवेज को २०,००० जंगी सवारों समेत मेवाड़ भेजा।

* १६०६ ई. :- देबारी के युद्ध में महाराणा अमरसिंह ने शहजादे परवेज को पराजित किया।

* १६०८ ई. :- जहांगीर ने शहजादे परवेज को बुलाकर
महाबत खां को १५,००० की फौज समेत मेवाड़ भेजा
महाराणा अमरसिंह ने महाबत खां को पराजित किया

* १६०९ ई. :- महाराणा अमरसिंह ने मांडल के थाने पर हमला किया, जहां मुगल फौज का सेनापति जगन्नाथ कछवाहा (राजा भारमल का बेटा) घावों के चलते कुछ दिन बाद मारा गया

* १६०९ ई. :- जहांगीर ने फौज समेत अब्दुल्ला खां
को मेवाड़ भेजा

* १६११ ई. :- रणकपुर के युद्ध में महाराणा अमरसिंह ने अब्दुल्ला खां को पराजित किया

* १६११ ई. :- जहांगीर ने अब्दुल्ला खां को बुलाकर
राजा बासु को मेवाड़ भेजा

* १६१३ ई. :- महाराणा अमरसिंह ने शाहबाद थाने पर हमला किया, जिसमें राजा बासु कत्ल हुआ

* १६१३ ई. :- जहांगीर ने फौज समेत मिर्जा अजीज कोका को मेवाड़ भेजा, पर वह भी महाराणा अमरसिंह से पराजित हुआ

* १६१३ ई. :- जहांगीर अजमेर पहुंचा और वहां से उसने शाहजहां को कुल हिन्दुस्तान की फौज समेत मेवाड़ भेजा।

सितम्बर, १६१३ ई.

"मुगल बादशाह जहाँगीर द्वारा कुल हिन्दुस्तान की फौज समेत मेवाड़ पर इतिहास का सबसे बड़ा आक्रमण"

* जहाँगीर ने आगरा से निकलने से पहले ही तमाम हिंदुस्तान के बादशाही सिपहसालारों को पैगाम भिजवाकर ये हुक्म दिए कि वे अपने-अपने इलाकों में जरूरत की फौज तैनात करके बाकी फौजों के साथ अजमेर पहुंचे | साथ ही बीकानेर, आमेर, बूँदी, मारवाड़, अमरकोट, किशनगढ़, नूरपुर के राजपूत राजाओं को उनकी फौज समेत अजमेर पहुंचने का हुक्म दिया |

जहाँगीर ने अपने बेटे खुर्रम (शाहजहाँ) को भी उसकी तमाम फौज के साथ हाजिर होने को कहा

१६ सितम्बर, १६१३ ई.

* इस दिन जहांगीर अजमेर पहुंचा

सितम्बर, १६१३ ई.

* जहांगीर पुष्कर पहुंचा | वहां उसने एक मन्दिर देखा | ये मन्दिर मेवाड़ के सगर (जगमाल के छोटे भाई) ने १ लाख के धन से बनवाया था | जहांगीर ने इसे ध्वस्त कर दिया |

* तुजुक-ए-जहांगीरी में जहांगीर लिखता है "ख्वाजा की मजार पर जाने के बाद मेरा मकसद बागी राणा अमर के मामले को खत्म करना था, तो मैंने अजमेर में ही रुककर खुर्रम को मेवाड़ भेजने का फैसला किया"

* जहांगीर लिखता है "खानआजम की कमान में जो फौज पहले से मेवाड़ में तैनात थी, उसके अलावा मैंने अपने बेटे खुर्रम को १२,००० जंगी सवार और दिये | ये फौज सिर्फ खुर्रम के लिए थी | मेवाड़ जाने वाली कुल फौज की गिनती बता पाना मुश्किल है"

* खुर्रम की कमान में मेवाड़ जाने वाले सिपहसालार :-

> फिदायत खां :- इसे फौज का बख्शी बनाया गया

> ज़माल खां तुर्की :- इसे मांडल के थाने पर भारी फौज के साथ तैनात किया, ताकि मेवाड़ में तैनात मुगल फौज तक जाने वाली रसद को महाराणा अमरसिंह के साथी लूट ना पाएं

> जादूराय :- इसे दीवान बनाया गया

> बैरमबेग :- इसे बीजापुर में तैनात किया

> मिर्जा बदीउज्ज़मा :- ये मिर्जा शाहरुख का बेटा था | इसे अच्छे बन्दूकधारों समेत कुम्भलगढ़ दुर्ग पर तैनात किया |

> सैयद सैफ खां :- इसे झाड़ौल में तैनात किया

> सगर सिंह सिसोदिया :- ये जगमाल का छोटा भाई था | इसे गोगुन्दा में भारी लश्कर के साथ तैनात किया | इस लश्कर के साथ महाराज शक्तिसिंह का पौत्र नारायणदास शक्‍तावत भी था | इस लश्कर में मेवाड़ के विश्वासघाती सिसोदिया राजपूत भी महाराणा अमरसिंह के खिलाफ तैनात थे |

> फरेदूं खां :- इसे ओजणे में तैनात किया

> राव रत्नसिंह हाडा (बून्दी) :- इसे हाडा राजपूतों समेत मेवाड़ की राजधानी चावण्ड में तैनात किया

> इब्राहिम खां :- इसे जावर में तैनात किया

> अरब खां :- इसे नाहरमगरे में तैनात किया

(नाहरमगरे का इलाका शुरु से ही मेवाड़ महाराणाओं के शिकार करने का मनपसंद स्थान रहा है)

> मारवाड़ नरेश राजा सूरसिंह :- इनको मारवाड़ के राठौड़ राजपूतों की हज़ारों की फौज के साथ सादड़ी में तैनात किया

(जहाँगीर द्वारा मेवाड़ पर इस हमले में भेजी जाने वाली फौज का अंदाज़ा इसी बात से लगाया जा सकता है कि राजपूताने की सबसे बड़ी रियासत मारवाड़ के राजा को उनकी कुल फौज समेत महज़ एक थाने पर तैनात किया गया)

> मिर्जा मुराद :- इसे मादड़ी में तैनात किया

> राजा किशनसिंह राठौड़ :- ये किशनगढ़ का पहला राजा था | इसे किशनगढ़ रियासत की फौज समेत मेवाड़ में तैनात किया |

> राजा सूरजमल तंवर :- ये पंजाब के नूरपुर का राजा था | ये १६१३ ई. में मेवाड़ पर हमला करने वाले राजा बासु का बेटा था |

> राजा जगतसिंह तंवर :- ये राजा बासु का दूसरा बेटा था | इसे जहाँगीर ने राजा का खिताब दिया था |

> बारहा का सैयद शिहाब :- मुगलों में सैयदों की फौज सबसे काबिल मानी जाती थी, इस खातिर इसे सैयदों की भारी जमात के साथ डबोक व देबारी के थाने पर तैनात किया, जो कि उदयपुर का प्रवेश द्वार था

> सैयद हाजी :- इसे ऊँठाळे में तैनात किया

> दोस्तबेग :- इसे कपासन के थाने पर तैनात किया

> ख्वाजा मुहसिन :- इसे भी दोस्तबेग के साथ कपासन के थाने पर तैनात किया

> सुलेमानबेग

> मीर हिसामुद्दीन

> अबुल फतह

> राजा विक्रमाजीत भदौरिया चौहान

> तरवियत खां

> सैयद अली (सलावत खां)

> रज़ाक बेग उज़बक

> मुहम्मद तकी मीरबख्शी

> नवाजिश खां

* खुर्रम (शाहजहाँ) ख़ुद हज़ारों मुगलों समेत उदयपुर में तैनात रहा | मारवाड़ नरेश राजा सूरसिंह ने खुर्रम को सलाह दी कि आप ऊँठाळा में पड़ाव डालें, लेकिन खुर्रम ने उदयपुर में ही तैनात रहना तय किया |

* इस फौज के अलावा जहाँगीर ने मालवा की फौज समेत सरदार खां, मिर्ज़ा अजीज कोका समेत बहुत से सिपहसालारों को मेवाड़ भेजा

* जहाँगीर के आदेश से गुजरात में तैनात मुगल फौज नीचे लिखे बादशाही सिपहसालारों की कमान में मेवाड़ भेजी गई :-

> फिरोज़ जंग (अब्दुल्ला खां) - ये १६०९ ई. से १६११ ई. तक मेवाड़ में ही था | ये भारी लश्कर के साथ मेवाड़ी पहाड़ों में चला गया, क्योंकि इसे मेवाड़ की पहाड़ियों के रास्ते पता थे |

> दिलावर खां काकड़ - इसे आंजणे में तैनात किया

> सज़ावार खां - इसे पानड़वे में तैनात किया | पानड़वा भीलों का इलाका था |

> ज़ाहिद :- इसे केवड़े में तैनात किया

> यारबेग

* जहाँगीर के आदेश से दक्षिण भारत में तैनात शहज़ादा परवेज़ हज़ारों की मुगल फौज व मध्य प्रदेश की बहुत सी फौज मिलाकर नीचे लिखे सिपहसालारों समेत मेवाड़ पहुंचा :-

> वीरसिंह देव बुंदेला :- इसने अबुल फज़ल का वध किया था | ये जहाँगीर का खास सिपहसालार था |

> मुहम्मद खां

> याकूब खां नियाज़ी

> हाजीबेग उज़बक

> गजनी खां जालौरी

> मिर्ज़ा मुराद सफ़वी

> अल्लाहयार कूका

> शिर्ज़ा खां

* कविराज श्यामलदास लिखते हैं "इन थानों में हर एक पर इतनी फौज रक्खी गई, कि एक-दूसरे की मदद का सहारा न देखे | जहांगीर अजमेर में बैठकर कुल हिन्दुस्तान की फौज को मेवाड़ के पहाड़ों में विदा कर चुका था"

* ऊपर जिन-जिन थानों के नाम लिखे गए हैं, वहां हर एक पर मुगल फौज के कब्ज़े से पहले मेवाड़ी राजपूतों ने अपने व शत्रु के लहू से धरती लाल कर दी, हज़ारों शत्रु मारे गए, लेकिन संख्या में ज्यादा होने के कारण समतल स्थान के हर थाने पर मुगलों का कब्ज़ा हुआ

* महाराणा अमरसिंह बहुत सी प्रजा को मेवाड़ के पहाड़ों में ले गए, लेकिन बहुत से लोग समतल इलाके छोड़कर पहाड़ों में नहीं गए, वे सभी मुगल फौज के अत्याचारों तले मारे गए, बहुत से बन्दी बना लिए गए, घर जला दिए गए, फ़सलें लूट ली गईं

* ये समस्त राजपूताने के इतिहास में शत्रु सेना की संख्या का सबसे बड़ा आंकड़ा था। 

*फिर भी डेढ़ वर्ष तक २० हजार मेवाडी बहादुरों ने तकरीबन ४ लाख से अधिक फौजी दस्तों से छापामार संघर्ष जारी रखा।

* महाराणा अमरसिंह पिछले १७ वर्षों में मुगलों से १७ युद्ध लड़ चुके थे, इसलिए इनकी कुल फौज राजपूतों व भीलों को मिलाकर भी ७-८ हज़ार से ज्यादा नहीं बची थी |

(सोचने वाली बात है कि एक राजपूत के स्वाभिमान को झुकाने के लिए जहांगीर को पूरे मुल्क की फौज लानी पड़ी, आप और हम कल्पना नहीं कर सकते, कि वो योद्धा महाराणा अमरसिंह कितने रुतबे, साहस और स्वाभिमान से ओतप्रोत रहे होंगे)

* १६१५ ई. :- मेवाड़ के बन्दी नागरिकों की रक्षा की खातिर महाराणा अमरसिंह ने मुगलों से सन्धि कर ली | सन्धि के बाद चित्तौड़ पर महाराणा अमरसिंह का अधिकार हुआ |

१६१५ ई. से १६२० ई. :- महाराणा अमरसिंह संधि की ग्लानि से उदयपुर में एकान्तवास में रहे।

२६ जनवरी, १६२० ई. :- महाराणा अमरसिंह का देहान्त।

जय महाराणा अमरसिंह जी मेवाड़

जय राजपुताना

जय एकलिंग जी

:- तनवीर सिंह सारंगदेवोत ठि. लक्ष्मणपुरा (बाठरड़ा-मेवाड़)

DISCOVER THE KNOWLEDGE OF FALSE REALITY

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Immortal to death .

In all the hopelessness

https://youtu.be/BEjpct-MTgw

DO WATCH IT

Finally seen one guy Praveen Thakur Sir(though seem very young), who tried to use its wisdom to understand sumup the dumbnesss of native/hindu that it was never about delhi...

So this compiler is posting here because ....

.. and Praveen Thakur sir who knew standing and speaking for enlaved hindus which for whole millenia(in general perception) will shorten (alpaayu) his .... As we have long history of outcomes to move with, so if he is so younng is not afraid why should we share the little truth we have to offer...

(There are 1000 videos so will specifically use substantial ones here only to keep it short)

HOW IT BEGINS

From S.C to media  to all been asking same question 

they all been cribbing according to their vested intersted  for many timeline of violence is 3 days only, much like every case in history they white wash everything which dont suit their narrative.

From last 3 plus month all the riots if taken anti caa protest then origin lies  with this news agency anchor.. anjana om kashyap.. from 1st day if any one noticed if aanyone interview mullah they all  said the same thing they got this news from aaj tak that muslim will be kicked out .. anjana om kashyap miss totally played the khangressy narrative  which in reality was to showcase the convern raised by opposition,. But bharat breaking brigade made cut out of that video and circulate it to every ghettos created by khangressies to assimilate bangladeshi and rohingaya so...... You all can see

https://youtu.be/ihNxUrVayGE

This is the video which opposition use to sell their narrative,

Much like at present where media use sportsman only gautam gambhir to sell their narrative of demeaning anything native in this case hindu/saffron terrorism,

Where as in reality

In parliament every above concern have been answered fully by India Home minsiter, Shri  Amit Shah ji yet..
Most of bhimte ( also khangressy) are crying, it is attack on their consitution .. in form amendments which is normal procedure and been constactly used by previous govt.

But here they specifically mention that it is attack on basic structure article 14 here

Which in parliament debate also been raised by some member been properly  answered by govt.

(Which is duly shared in previous post)

As had they Give ctizenship to hindus or sikhs or any other section specifically ..  then it will  definately be violation.. but they are giving citizenship only to persecuted minorities of three islamic countries where in past minorities have been persecuted and that minority have come to india, that too before 2014.. and from these 3 islamic country only minorities,  citizenship attainment process timline will be reduced from normal time period process used for everyone..

Still they are crying bcoz in assam the bangleshi muslims who are taking native jobs will be kicked out.. n in past khangress gifted citizenship to every taddy bit in hope of increasig will be revised properly.. this is why these soon to be illegal who are in large number taking our youth employment will be kicked..but still as society we are bowing down to their age old breeding ghettos pressusre as we as a society n family become nuclear types.

WHY IT BEGINS SUDDENLY

After defeat by indian forces converted muslim (slaves of arabs) pious encrochment with support of britah stooges both sides... Starts fantasising bleed thorugh thousands cuts as in traditional warfare they failed miserably..

A lot of weakly, conflict averse characters often buckle at the first sign of trouble losing all ability to think. So we'll shed some light here:

what has happened here is that the Delhi police did not crack down on a Muslim mob when it started rioting. This may or may not have been for ulterior motives. Weakly characters succumb to mad fears of a nefarious plot behind this. But there is another possibility: that the government didn't want a police crackdown (like Macron's skull cracking in France) due to Trump's visit.

With the liberal media already painting India as some kind of crypto-fascist regime, a police crackdown during Trump's visit would have amplified coverage. Now that the visit is done, the police will deal with miscreants as appropriate. As a side effect of tolerating Muslim mobs Local Hindus enraged by Muslim mobs took the law into their hands and started attacking Muslims. Neither set of actions is justified and all miscreants need to be brought to book. But it is worth noting that a section of Indian Muslims are willing to kill fellow citizens...... So that Pakistani Muslims (who don't want any Indian Muslims in Pakistan) can migrate to India.

See how break india mouth peace tells the truth of all hindu (converted in past ones by their arab ...)

Unless one is hypnotised by TV channels and has lost all ability to think critically, this is what it boils down to. We are afraid this is the death of Sicularism by a thousand cuts as we mention above.

Sadly it's not over yet. It looks more like an opening move. It's true that Indian Muslims are more angry about naming and calling out Pakistan than CAA itself. The rest of the job was done by Bollywood & journalists. Politicians didn't really play that much if a role here.

Right now all the leftist are framing Kapil mishra for giving hateful speech.
And LITERALLY blamed him (from NYT to BBC) for riots.

Anand जिले के Khambhat शहरका सांप्रदायिक रूपसे संवेदनशील अकबरपुरा इलाका भारी पथरावका गवाह है
करीब दर्जन भर घरो और दुकानोमे आग लगा दी
20 injured है 5 serious है और 1 dead

But no international media covered when this😰🏃🖕 as there was no kapil mishra to be framed.

It's impressive.

Group 1: Information/SM/Press
Group 2: Logistics

If M calls helpline, both groups activated. Due process followed. Great PR for NGO among Ms anda Ls.

If H calls helpline, only Group 2 activated. Due process followed. Great PR for NGO among Hs.

Win-win.

Social lives of Hs n Ms cant be equated. For them its religion 1st for us it's making our next gen responsible citizens which is pretty ........ Up process in itself

Breaking india forces

and

Radical islamic terrorist oraganisation are light years ahead. Lets work on strengthening our narrative. This is a civilizational war, treat it with all the seriousness that it deserves.

Journalists and Hu Rights groups working for western money.

See this👇thats how they are tearing India apart.

Just see how dedicated,well organised they are just to make it look organic.

BJP is just a titular king. It is the left Eco-System that rules.

THEN WHO IS BEHIND THE BEGINING




Where is the patriots natives penetration in business ecosystem, legal ecosystem, media, administration? 🤔. Narrative is being controlled by these liars and their spinmasters. Not just in info wars but also on ground mobilization. Native patriots fails in both.

whats the point in cracking down after scores of Hindu are dead ?

Also,very good chance that these crackdowns wont result in any conviction given our laws

Only time, they could have been punished was during the actual riots

MAHARISHI DAYANAND SARASWATI Ji (MOOLSHANKAR JI) - THE FOUNDER AND GREAT SOCIAL REFORMER OF ARYA SAMAJ

कृण्वन्तो विश्वमार्यम्

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire ; 

No dangers fright him, no labours tire. 

"GREAT MEN are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage 

o mankind ; they stand as heavenly Signs, 

ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic 

tokens of what still may be, the revealed, embodied 

possibilities of human nature."

Great men are pillars of light to light up the path 

of man in this life ; their lives and their work serve 

as guides to men to enable them to traverse the 

passage of life in this world in safety and peace. They 

are the divine and never-failing embodiments of 

knowledge of the good that there was in the Past, and 

they reveal in an unmistakable manner what man- 

kind in future may be, and to what height of greatness 

every man may rise. Great men are the living illus- 

trations of the noble elevation to which humanity will 

eventually rise in the future. 

A Great Man, is an unfailing guide of mankind and 

embodies in himself the nobility and perfection of 

human nature. Dayanand Saraswati was, in this sense 

of the term, a perfect example of a great man. 

"Great men seem to be part of the Infinite, brothers 

of the Seas and the Mountains," says Colonel Ingersoll, 

the greatest of the American orators. Humanity is infinite.
Great men, possessing in a greater measure 

the qualities that distinguish man from animals, help 

us to realise infinity in their greatness. As the skies, 

the seas and the mountains transcend our physical 

vision and appear to us to have no end, so do great 

men transcend our mental vision and their proportions 

fade into infinity. The seas and the mountains deter- 

mine on the physical plane, the settlement of people, 

the growth of cities and towns, and the flow of trade; 

so do great men elevate the moral and spiritual life of 

men, and bring into being ideas and forces, that control 

and regulate in a great measure, the ordinary day to day 

life of peoples, and permanently affect their out-look 

and their ideals. The influence of great men is lasting, 

as is the influence of the seas and the mountains. 

Great men are not all fashioned after one pattern. 

Every one has an individuality of his own. There is 

no single standard by which to measure them all. No 

one in this world can remain uninfluenced by the 

environment in which he grows up ; and the environ- 

ment never being the same, different people develop 

different qualities and in different measures. 

One generally accepted standard used in judging 

great men, however, is the good they have done to the world, the extent to which they have helped the masses, the level of happiness and prosperity to which they have raised mankind, the intellectual and spiritual advancement of the peoples of the world they have brought about. It is this standard that reminds one of the dictum that great men are part of the infinite. 

Sri Rama Chandra, Bhishma, Sagara, Asoka, 

Samudragupta, Vikramaditya, Harsha, Devapala, Alexander, Caesar, Vikramadotya, Rana Kumbha, Bhoja, Charlemagne, Napolean were all great 

men, each in his own way. Great poets like Valmiki, 

Kalidas, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Goethe; 

philosophers and thinkers like Vyas, Gautama, 

Kanada, Sankaracharya, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Herbert Spencer have brought much light and joy to 

the world and have helped in raising the intellectual 

and spiritual level o mankind, and added to their 

happiness and contentment. Patriots like Pratap, 

Sivaji, William Tell, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Robert 

Bruce, Kamal Pasha have served humanity through 

their own countries, raised the moral level of 

mankind and have established landmarks which are 

a never-failing source of strength and inspiration 

to men in every country and clime. Greater than 

all these, however, are men, who having known Truth 

and received the light not vouch safed to ordinary 

men, love mankind; who, burning with the desire 

to promote human welfare, themselves lead lives of 

absolute purity and self-denial, and devote themselves 

to revealing fundamental truths of life, forgotten or 

long hidden; who hold aloft high ideals of conduct 

for people to follow, and ceaselessly work to lighten 

their burdens and to remove the injustices, the suffer- 

ings, the sorrows of the world by banishing ignorance, 

and guiding them towards truth, light and happiness. 

While heroes extort admiration and furnish inspira- 

tion; poets, thinkers and philosophers win gratitude 

and affection ; mankind offer their reverence, love, 

homage and adoration to the Regenerators of people 

like Krishna, Buddha and Jesus. Dayanand Saras wati 

belonged to this small number of the Elect. 

These men represent the highest and the noblest 

in humanity; they have reached the summit of human 

glory and greatness. 

THE VEDAS 

According to Hindu belief, when God created 

man, he revealed the Vedas for his guidance. 

The Vedas radiated the light that illumined the 

world by teaching those eternal truths and principles 

that help us to realise the nature and the co-relation o God and man of Parmatma, Atmd and Prakriti 

of Humanity and Divinity. 

Professor Max Muller says; "In the history of 

the world, the Vedas fill a gap which no literary 

work in any other language could fill." Guigault 

says: "The Rigveda is the most sublime conception of 

the great high-ways of humanity." 'Mons Leon Delbos 

says : " There is no monument of Greece or Rome 

more precious than the Rig Veda." When the 

Yajur Veda was presented to Voltaire, he expressed 

his belief that "the Veda was the most precious gift 

for which the West had ever been indebted to 

the East." 

Sriyut Aurovindo Ghosh, one of the great living 

Indians, says: "The ancient civilization did possess 

secrets of science, some of which modern knowledge 

has recovered, extended and made rich and precise, 

but others are even now not recovered. There is then 

nothing fantastic in Dayanand's idea that the Veda 

contains truth of science as well as truth of religion. 

I will even add my own conviction that the Veda 

contains truths of science, the modern world does not 

at all possess, and in that case Dayanand has rather 

understated than overstated the depth and range of 

the Vedic wisdom. 

"In the matter of Vedic interpretation, I am 

convinced that whatever may be the final complete 

interpretation, Dayanand will be honoured as the 

first discoverer of the right clues. Amidst the chaos 

and obscurity of old ignorance and age-long misunderstanding, his was the eye of direct vision that pierced to the truth and fastened on that which was essential. He has found the key of doors that time had closed, and rent asunder the seals of the imprisoned fountain. The essential is that he seized justly on the Vedas as the Indian rock of ages and had the daring conception to build on what his penetrating glance perceived in it a whole nationhood. Ram Mohan Roy, that greai 

soul and puissant worker, who laid his hand on Bengal and shook her out of her long indolent sleep by he rivers and her rice fields, stopped short at the Upanishads. Dayanand looked beyond and perceivec 

that our true or original seed was the Vedas. He 

had the national instinct and he was able to make 

it luminous an intuition in place of an instinct 

Therefore the works that derive from him, howeve 

they depart from received traditions, must needs be 

profoundly national... If the character given by the Vedic Rishis to their goals is admitted, we are 

bound whenever the hymns speak of Agni or some

other god, to see behind that name what was presen 

always to the thought of the Rishi, the One Supreme 

Deity, or else one of His powers with its attendan 

qualities and attributes. Immediately the whole 

character of the Vedas is fixed in the sense, Dayanand gave to it, the merely ritual, mythological am polytheistic interpretation of Sayanacharya collapses the naturalistic and historical interpretation ofEuropeans also vanishes. We have instead read 

scripture, one of the world's sacred books and that

divine word of a lofty and noble religion. "

THE HINDU RACE 

The Indians were thus the original teachers and 

leaders of mankind. They gave civilization and 

religion to the world; and their country, Aryavart 

(now called India) became the sacred land of civilized humanity. The Aryas carried dharma, truth and enlightenment to the remotest corners of the world all over Asia, Europe, Africa and America. With the lapse of time, after reaching the highest meridian of earthly prosperity, decline set in amongst them, and gradually, they lost the knowledge of the Vedas and the sciences based on their teachings. They forgot the Dharma their forefathers had taught the world. Their spiritual light, their moral grandeur, their 

physical prowess and their purity of life deteriorated, 

till those eternal truths of Being that underlie true 

Dharma, fell in danger of disappearing. The knowledge of Sanskrit ($crwroft) declined ; true Dharma became rare. And the term Arya, once a term which connoted nobility, culture and greatness, gave place to "Hindu" which with the progress of time became synonymous with "the weak and the feeble." 

The people who taught higher philosophy and 

science to the Greeks and the Egyptians, and religion to the whole world, fell a victim to foreign invaders 

inferior to them in civilization, culture and refinement. So great was the fall that even a correct copy of the 

Vedas the most precious heritage bequeathed by 

the Kishis to mankind was not easily available in 

India. The Hindu nation became a byword for an 

inefficient, helpless and subject people. 

The people that first preached to the world the 

brotherhood of man and the unity of mankind 

became hopelessly divided into innumerable castes 

watertight compartments. They even began to 

regard it a sin for a member of one caste to marry 

into another caste, to take food cooked by a member of another caste, even to dine with him. Nay, in 

some parts of this sacred land, they even now 

regard it a pollution to be within a certain distance 

of a member of certain castes. Owing to this ignorant, narrow, exclusive and iron-bound caste system resulting in disunity, the country, fell a prey to the greed, oppression and domination of backward but virile tribes, who, from time to time invaded the hospitable, fertile and rich land of India from the West or the North West. The people who had reached the summit of spritual glory, and the pinnacle of worldly prosperity, who carried their messages of peace, good-will, enlightenment and happiness to every part of the world ; who taught arts and sciences to the ignorant and un-enlightened nations of both the hemispheres, who were 

justly celebrated as the greatest, the richest, and the 

wisest people on earth, were found in the beginning 

of the nineteenth century A hopelessly divided, 

weak and ignorant, strangers to their sublime language and their superb literature, unable to defend themselves against foreign invasion ; unable to protect their arts and sciences, their noble Culture, their magnificent civilization and their divine religion. 

Such was the state of affairs in this laud when 

Swami Dayanand Saraswati was born in Vikrama 

Samvat 1881 (A.D. 1824-25). 

The Hindu Sastras inculcate that truth reasserts 

itself, that when the salvation of mankind is in 

jeopardy, a great soul appears and leads men again 

towards those eternal springs which give life and 

vigour.

This sloka of the Gita merely gives expression 

to the eternal truth that whenever the eternal truths 

of life are in danger of disappearance, whenever the 

race through which these truths were revealed to 

mankind is in danger of forgetting them, the Divine 

Mercy begins to operate and a great soul appears to 

re-unfold those truths and teach people anew the true faith that leads to life and happiness. 

Dayanand saw the world steeped in ignorance and 

superstition, torn asunder by prejudice and selfishness, and without light to guide the path of man and of womens to salvation. Life-long study and contemplation based on careful observation drove him to the conclusion that the prime cause of degeneration was the neglect of those eternal truths taught in the Vedas, which govern humanity and which, properly understood and practised, will elevate mankind and bring prosperity and happiness to the world. He determined to revive their study. 

Finding also that the evils that ate into the vitals 

of Hindu society were multifarious and manifold, he 

resolved to tackle them all; and in order to throw 

the light of Vedic teachings on all important matters 

that concerned the life of the people religious, 

social and economic he began to write books 

containing those teachings, all in Hindi, for the use 

and benefit of all classes of society for the Hindus 

as well as the non-Hindus. He travelled all over 

the country, spreading the light of truth wherever 

he went, preaching Vedic religion and ideals, giving 

public lectures, holding private discourses and friendly discussions with Christian missionaries, Muslim Mauliis and the protagonists of other religions as well as with the learned Brahmins. 

He knew that the Brahmins, who are the law- 

givers of India, accept without question, the supreme authority of the Vedas in all things and at all 

times they hold that the Vedas, being divine wisdom, 

override all Sastras and none may question their 

authority. As Aurovindo Ghosh says: " Even, 

when the Vedas were no longer understood, even 

when their traditions were lost behind Pauranic 

forms, they were still held in honour, though without 

knowledge, as authoritative revelation and inspired 

Book of Knowledge, the source of all sanctions 

and standard of all truth." He therefore decided 

that the best way to redeem his people was to 

teach them what the Vedas contained. He resolved 

to show them that the Vedas, the Revelation, the source of Hindu religion and its highest authority, 

did not support superstition, idolatry, class privilege, 

sex and caste disqualifications, pernicious customs, 

emasculating and degrading practices that had reduced the Hindu nation to a state o helpless decrepitude and weakness. 

DAYANAND, A WORLD-TEACHER 

Swami Dayanand Saraswati was not a mere 

Reformer. He was a World Teacher. His mission 

was to uplift all mankind. Some people, while fully 

admitting Dayanand's greatness and the great work 

he did for the Hindus, while also appreciating that 

his teachings would help to uplift mankind, find it 

difficult to reconcile their idea of his great and noble 

aim with his exposure and criticism of the doctrines 

and practices prevalent in Islam and Christianity 

and other religions. They think that the great man 

that he was, that his aim being the progress and 

unity of human race, he should not have denounced 

the religious beliefs or condemned the practices followed by the followers of those faiths. They approve of his denunciation of idol-worship, the caste system, untouchability, child marriage, enforced widowhood, class privilege evils prevalent amongst the Hindus. They do not mind the unrest and the disturbance he created amongst the Hindus by his ceaseless campaign against the evils that rent Hindu society asunder ; but they would not, dare not, expose or condemn the falsehoods and the evils prevalent in Islamic or Christian society. A highly placed English-man, while expressing his admiration for his noble character and the great work Swamiji had done, said to me that great men like him should not condemn or denounce the beliefs and practices of the followers of other religions. 

Those who hold such opinions, judge of the greatness of others by their own smallness. They 

fail to understand Dayanand's aim, his character or 

the work he had set before himself. They betray 

their ignorance of his mission. They fail to compre- 

hend the real greatness, the high nobility of purpose 

which inspired his work. They only look upon him 

as a Hindu Reformer, as one whose work was to 

purge Hindu Society of what they think are the 

evils and falsehoods in Hinduism. They only see a 

part of the man, not the whole of him. They fail to see that he was not a mere Hindu Reformer, but a lover of Humanity, a World Redeemer. His mission was to purge human society not Hindu Society only 

of the evils from which it suffered owing to wrong 

beliefs, whether those beliefs and doctrines were 

inculcated by Hinduism or Christianity or Islam. He 

made no difference between faith and faith. He was 

a World Teacher and his task was to uplift mankind, 

whether it lived in India and followed Hinduism, 

or in Persia or Arabia and followed Islam, or in 

Europe and America and followed Christianity. He 

loved all mankind, and his aim was to save from 

degradation and falsehood all men whether they lived in this country or that, or followed this faith or 

that. He says in the Satyarth Prakash : u Though 

I was born in Aryavarta (India) and still live in it; 

yet just as I do not defend the falsehoods of the 

religions prevailing in this country but expose them 

fully; in like manner I deal with the religions of 

other countries and their supporters I treat the 

foreigners in the same way as my own countrymen so far as the elevation of the human race is concerned. It behoves all men to act likewise." 

This declaration of his, clearly shows that when he 

criticised Hinduism or Islam or Christianity, it was 

not in a carping spirit, not as an antagonist, but in 

a spirit of love and philanthropy. A father anxious to secure the happiness and prosperity of all his 

sons who have gone astray does not confine himself 

to guiding and warning the eldest son, leaving the 

others to their fate; but loving all of them, points 

out to them all, the wrong paths they had taken, 

warns them all against the evils they suffer from ; 

shows them all, the right path they should follow. 

So did Dayanand. His aim was not to save Hindus 

only ; he looked upon Hindus, Muslims, Christians, 

Buddhists, Zoarastrians, all as his kith and kin, all as 

his sons ; and as he loved them all, he could not 

but point out the falsehoods and the evils of the 

various faiths they followed. He would not haye been the World Redeemer that he was, had he not done so. 

DAYANAND, A PRODUCT OP PURE HINDUISM 

A remarkable thing about Dayanand Saraswati 

is that he and his teachings are the products solely 

of Hindu shastras and Hindu culture. Foreign culture, 

Western civilization had not the slightest influence 

in making him what he was. He did not know 

English and was in no way influenced by European 

culture or European thought. 

English-educated people in India began to condemn 

idolatry, class privilege, caste system, evil customs 

and practices like the child marriage and enforced 

widowhood, in consequence of the English education they had received. And because they thought that 

these practices constituted Hinduism, they began to 

reject Hinduism too. Dayanand without receiving 

any Western education or coming under Western 

influence, by a study of the real Hindu Sastras 

found that these practices were against the teachings of Hindu Sastras and therefore rejected them. He shewed that the Vedic religion (true Hinduism) was free from all these evils that now go under the name of Hinduism. 

HIS DISTINGUISHING FEATURES 

A study of Dayanand's life and work brings out 

prominently his three distinguishing features. They 

are : 

1. Love of truth and absolute rejection of 

untruth. 

2. The dedication of his life to the service 

of mankind. He set to work to free 

India from untruth, superstition, and the 

worship of false gods in all matters, 

religious, social, economic and political, 

and through India, the whole human race. 

3. His love of mankind. 

LOVE OF TRUTH 

From his childhood he was a Seeker after Truth. 

His descriminating mind accepted truth as soon as he 

found it and instantly rejected untruth. Born in a 

rich, high class Brahmin family in a town which has 

since been identified as Tankara in the Morvi State 

in Kathiawar, when only eight years old, Mulshankar, 

for such was the name given to him by his parents, 

was invested with the sacred thread which marks 

the initiation of a child into Brahmacharya a life 

of celebacy, purity, acquisition of knowledge and 

search after truth. 

During a vigil at night, on the Shivratri day, 

in a temple of Siva, he saw mice play on the idol 

and eat the food placed before it, which he had 

been taught to worship as God. The truth flashed 

on his mind that the idol which was unable to 

prevent mice from running about on it and eating 

up its food, could not be God, who is the Creator 

and all powerful Ruler of the world. He woke up 

his father, who had fallen asleep during the vigil, 

and asked him to explain the phenomenon he had 

witnessed. The father's attempt to explain away the occurence proved futile and Dayanand lost faith 

in idol-worship. 

Dayanand Saraswati had an insatiable appetite 

for knowledge as he was determined to know the 

truth in every matter the real substance of things. 

He was not only a most diligent student, but had 

expressed his determination to devote his life to 

acquisition of knowledge, and to go for study to 

Benares, the chief seat of Sanskrit learning in India. 

Finding his parents resolved to prevent this by 

forcing him to enter into wedlock, he made up his 

mind to flee from the uncongenial atmosphere which stifled truth. He took the earliest opportunity to 

leave the environment where life moved in a narrow, 

false and artificial circle, He left home and his 

parents, and began to prepare himself for a life of 

service to truth, service to his country and service 

to humanity. He went wherever he could find a 

teacher to impart hirn knowledge. He spent a 

number of years going from place to place regard- 

less of bodily discomforts, gladly suffering hardships and privations, leading a life of strenuous, unceasing 

toil and wholeheartedly devoted himself to the study 

of ancient Sanskrit learning. He went to Mount 

Abu, the Satpura Hills, to the distant Himalayas, 

explored hermitages, lonely caves, and mountain 

retreats in search of sages, teachers of truth, yogis 

and Mahatmas who would initiate him into the 

realms of the highest knowledge which man can 

acquire in order that he may become fully fitted 

to lead a life devoted to the service of Humanity. 

He underwent strict discipline, led a life of true 

Brahmacharya to find the Truth. He found it at 

last in Muttra, where he became a disciple of Swami 

Virjanand Saraswati, from whom he acquired perfect 

proficiency in Sanskrit learning, in order to be able 

to hold his own against the most learned in the land, whose opposition he was sure to encounter in 

his campaign against untruth. 

Dayanand early realised that untruth leads to 

error and sin, and entails sorrow and suffering. He 

also realised that the world was full o sorrow and 

suffering because it had accepted untruth, and that 

it could be saved only by bringing it back to the 

citadel of truth. He went to Benares, stormed the 

chief citadel of prejudice and privilege and demolished it. He challenged the most learned of the Pandits there to accept truth, and give up untruth 

and superstition. He told them that the Vedas, the 

Revelation, the sole authority on religion, condemned idol-worship, caste by birth, child marriage and 

untouchability, that the Vedas taught pure monotheism, equality of man and the sexes, and challanged them to prove the contrary. The Pandits failed to do so: orthodoxy was beaten in its own stronghold. Vested interests, class privileges and life-lonff habits and beliefs, but chiefly caste bondage, stood in the way of mankind and it was the birth-right of every person to read them and act according to their teachings. He therefore took up the work of translating them into Hindithe lingua franca of India the lingua Indica so that every one may have access to them and understand them. Dayanand believed that the acceptance of the Vedas and acting according to their teachings will bring salvation to mankind; and he set to work to achieve that object. He took to propagating the truth as taught by the Vedas by lectures, discourses, debates, discussions, conversations and by writing books, and pamphlets. He went round the country taking the banner of Truth to every important town in India where Hindi was understood, every sacred place where large masses of people gather together to perform religious ceremonies, celebrate festivals and to bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges, the Jumna, the Narbada, the Tapti, e.g. the Kumbha at Hardwar, the Ardha Kumbhis at Allahabad and Ujjain. He visited every place of pilgrimage, small or great, Pushkar, Benares, Gaya, Muttra, Ajodhia, Allahabad, Nasik, Badrinarain etc. He had no headquarters, no place to go to, for rest or recuperation. Day and night, night and day, he devoted himself to the service of the people writing, preaching, debating, advising, counselling. 

Not content to do what he would be able to 

accomplish during his own life, which he foresaw 

would not be long, and convinced that it was 

necessary to carry the message of Truth to all 

countries of the world, he created a Trust the 

Paropkarini Sabha and appointed 23 Trustees to 

continue his work after him and carry the Banner 

of Truth to every country in the world, in Europe, 

America and Asia, and thus free men from supersti- 

tions, falsehoods and shackles of all kinds. He 

enjoined upon the trustees the duty 

(1) To propagate and spread the knowledge 

of the Vedas and the Vedangas, i. e. to say, 

to expound them and get them expounded, to 

read and hear them read, to recite and get 

them recited, and to publish them. 

(2) To establish Missions and send mision- 

aries to all countries of the world to teach 

men the Vedic Faith, and to preach that Truth 

should be accepted and Untruth rejected. 

(3) To give protection and right education 

to the orphans and the poor people of India. 

LOVE OF MANKIND 

The philosopher Helvetius says:- "Don't expect 

too much from men if you would love mankind/ 1 

Dayanand knew that the evil in the world was due 

to ignorance, want of knowledge of Troth. As his heart was full of love for mankind, he had only 

pity for the wrong- doing, even the wickedness of 

men. He denounced untruth, often in strong terms, 

but had no hatred for any one, not even for the 

wrong-doer, the criminal and the wicked. The 

infinite love and compassion that filled his heart 

left no room there for feelings of recrimination or 

revenge. 

Several incidents in his life illustrate how a 

wrong committed by a person against him instead 

of exciting hatred or anger invoked pity and com- 

passion in him. Once when he was in Anupshabar 

(U. P.) carrying on his crusade against untruth, a 

Brahmin, enraged by Swamiji's denunciation of idol- 

worship resolved to kill him, and gave him poison 

in a pan (betel leaf). Swamiji came to know of it 

in time, and saved himself by performing a yogic 

act, Neoli Kriya. He, however, said nothing to the man. 

Somehow or other the news of this reached the ears 

of the Tahsildar and Magistrate of the place, Sayad 

Muhammad, who arrested and imprisoned the Brah- 

min, Thinking that Swamiji would appreciate his 

action, he went to Swamiji to inform him of it. 

The Swami would not speak to him. The Tahsildar 

was surprised and asked him the reason of it. Swa- 

miji said to him "I have not come to this world to 

imprison people, but to free them from shackles. If 

men do not give up evil-doing why should we leave 

our nobleness and higher purpose." Swamiji then 

got the culprit released. 

When we think of Dayanand Saraswati, we see 

the sublime spectacle of a superman, who, knowing 

the Truth, and also knowing that the world is 

full of sorrow because it has left the path of Truth, 

stands before it with a heart full of pity and com- 

passion for erring mankind; with no resources except 

his own dominant intellect, his superb courage and his indomitable will; with only a piece of cloth round 

his loins and a stick in his hand; convinced that it 

was his duty to save mankind and determined to do 

so; conscious that he possessed the strength to free 

it from falsehood, superstition and sin which had taken a firm hold of it and were dragging it lower and 

lower down the slough of despondency and degradation. 

DAYANAND'S PLACE IN HISTORY 

It is not possible at the present time to assign 

Swami Dayanand Saraswati his true place in History. 

We are too near him yet to get a full view of his 

proportions. True perspective is wanting. If you 

stand at the foot of a mountain, or fifty yards away 

from it you can only say that it is a great big thing, 

but you cannot say where it stands in the grade of 

mountains. You must stand at a great distance from 

a mountain and be able to get a comprehensive view 

of its length and height, of the space it occupies in 

the landscape as compared with the others, before 

you can give it its rank amongst the mountains of 

the world. So with great men. A century or two 

must pass before even the best informed can form 

a tolerably clear idea of a great man's proportions. 

You have to wait till the forces generated and set 

to work by a great personality have fully developed 

and adjusted themselves not only to the forces at work when that personality appeared on the horizon, but have also met and come to some adjustment with the reactions to the^ disturbing forces brought into being by that great man. You have to wait till this is done; for it is then that you can get a true perspective of the man and can assign him his true place amongst great personalities. 

Dayanand, as stated before, was one of the great 

teachers and redeemers of the world like Krishna, 

Buddha and Jesus. Time, however, is not yet for assigning Dayanand his true place among them. Could any one, fifty years after Buddha's death, or the Crucification of Christ, declare the position Buddha or Christ was to occupy in history ? Could any one 

even so late as the conversion of Emperor Asoka 

have assigned Buddha the place he now occupies in 

human history; or even a thousand years after his 

death assign Jesus the position he now holds amongst mankind ? It took centuries to bring to fruition the seeds sewn by them, It was several centuries before Buddha and Jesus were recognised as great benefactors of mankind. As a matter of History, within fifty years of their deaths no one assigned to Buddha or Jesus even that position amongst men, which, according to the informed people all over the world, Dayanand occupies to-day. And if the logic of things and human experience are any guide, there is no doubt that a couple of centuries hence, the world will accept Dayanand as as great a benefactor of mankind as Jesus or Buddha. 

The heart of Jesus like that of Dayanand was 

full of pity for the sufferings of men. Intellec- 

tually, however, Dayanand was far superior to him. 

Dayanand was a profound scholar. His supreme 

place in the field of knowledge of Vedic Literature 

was undisputed and unquestioned. Both Jesus and 

Dayanand tried to redeem the people. Both loved 

them and served them. Both had to give up 

their lives at the altar of the service of humanity. 

Jesus was crucified : Dayanand was poisoned. 

Buddha, one of the noblest of men, is nearer 

Dayanand than Jesus. Both spent a large part of their lives in search of truth, and at last finding it, gave up 

the rest of their lives to proclaiming it and making 

it accessible to all. Both were equally pure in their lives, and gave up the world to serve mankind. Both loved Humanity and were full of pity and compassion for the failings, the foibles, the follies, the fatalities of men. Both were incarnations of mercy and forgiveness. Buddha's mission, born as he was in the India of the sixth century B. a, was to do away with superstition, ritualism run riot, and to teach men simplicity and brotherhood. Dayanand declared that he had come to the world to break the chains of slavery, and free mankind from error, superstition, ignorance, domination of all kinds, ecclesiastical, social, economic. Dayanand was equipped for the purpose with a cultivated intellect of the highest order, and knowledge of the Vedic literature, unrivalled and supreme. In this, Dayanand had an advantage over Buddha. Then, Buddha had only to deal with the Brahmin priesthood: Dayanand had to meet and overcome not only the Brahmin orthodoxy but the prejudices and errors of the votaries of Islam, Christianity, Jainiwm, Sikhism and others. 

Both Buddha and Dayanand were products of pure 

unadulterated Hindu culture and Hindu thought, and 

owed nothing to alien civilizations, cultures or reli- 

gions. In Buddha's time, little of the world outside 

India was known: Dayanand had a pretty clear idea 

of the great world outside India. Buddha found his 

people politically independent but suffering from 

excessive ritualism and presumption, and given to 

excessive self-indulgence. Dayanand found his people weaklings, steeped in ignorance and superstition, helpless and degraded, bound hand and foot, slaves politically^ economically and socially. He had, a harder task to perform to redeem them and, through them, the rest of mankind. Yet he has sown the seed which will bear the fruit of World Redemption. Time will prove that he was one of the greatest benefactors of humanity true Redeemer and Deliverer, true Regenerator of mankind.

A humble tribute to the epitome of wisdom and spirituality, an embodiment of service and compassion.