VEDIC VISION ANCIENT INSIGHTS INTO MODERN LIFE A Translation of ‘Sanskar Chandrika’ The Scientific Exposition of Rishi Dayanand’s ‘Sanskar Vidhi’

PREFACE Rishi Dayanand was born in the year 1824 and died in the year 1883. He lived for 59 years. In the year 1860, at the age of 36 years began his education under the care of Guru Virjanand. hatever creative work was achieved by the Rishi was after this period. In this manner, he had a time span of 22 to 23 years only for his creative work. Out of this period, he spent sometime for self-mortification and in the remaining time he travelled from every nook and corner of the country spreading the message of Vedic religion, writing commentary on the Vedas, wrote several books and original treatises like ‘Satyaarth Prakash’, ‘Sanskar Widhi and an exposition on the Rig Veda. It is amazing that his each and every work is enough to absorb an individual’s whole e span. To offer so much to society in such a short period was possible only by the great ascetic sage (aditya brahmachari) Fast Dayanand. Whatever was useful for the followers of Vedic e has been wrapped up by the Rishi in his writings. There are 2 aspects of human life-theoretical and practical. his original and constructive ideas, Rishi Dayanand created pheaval amongst his contemporary thinkers. Whereas he macked the conservative and dogmatic approach within the country; he also calmed down the materialistic approach of the West. He established the prestige and dignity of Vedic Culture the ancient sages of India giving it a definite form in his ise ‘Satyaarth Prakash’. This was his doctrinaire work. But a doctrine without being practical and without thoughtful action miy sprouts. Without converting the dream into practice, the s’s human would have been left like ‘वाचो विग्लापनम् हि तत्’ aacho viglaapanam hi tat’ a well has meaning only when isused. For a seed to grow into a tree; it has to sprout first. The aim of Rishi Dayanand was to create a commotion, an gration, a movement in the man of his times, thereby devel-aging a new human. He wanted to burn the trash and establish