• Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
    Famous Hindu leader and Indian freedom fighter

    Maharshi Dayanand was the first warrior of the freedom struggle and the protector of the Hindu community. The Arya Samaj established by him has done and is doing great service to the nation. Arya Samajists have played a big role in the freedom struggle. The immortal book ‘Satyarth Prakash’ written by Maharshiji is going to infuse warm blood into the veins of the Hindu community. In the presence of ‘Satyarth Prakash’ no heretic can boast of his religion.

  • Shyamji Krishna Verma
    Indian Freedom Fighter and Founder of India House in London

    The credit for the service I have rendered to the nation, caste and society goes to Maharshi Dayanand. Whatever I have achieved, the biggest contribution has been made by that well-wisher, knowledgeable in the Vedas and a brilliant visionary. I am proud to be a disciple of that independent thinker.

  • Shyamji Krishna Verma
    Indian Freedom Fighter and Founder of India House in London

    I consider Swami Dayanand Saraswati as my guiding guru. I have gained a lot by staying at his feet. He was always kind to me. Swamiji wished that Vedic religion should be propagated in foreign countries also. He inspired me to propagate Vedic culture in foreign countries.

  • Mahamana Madan Mohan Malaviya
    Famous Hindu leader and Educationist

    Maharshi Dayanand was an incarnation of religious austerity. He had illuminated the divine light in India. He made every effort to give rebirth to the Hindu society. He wanted to see India free and divine. He kept trying to bring back Arsh time. He had re-infused life into the dying Hindu community. He was an incomparable icon of Hindu culture and an inexhaustible character of Mother India.

  • Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Indian Freedom Fighter

    Rishi Dayanand was a luminous star who shone with his supernatural aura on the Indian sky and awakened India which was sleeping in deep sleep. He was the first messenger of ‘Swarajya'(self rule) and a worshiper of humanity.

  • Aurobindo Ghosh
    Indian Philosopher

    He was a valiant conqueror of the obstacles placed in the path of the soul by nature, and thus appeared before me a powerful embodiment of spiritual functionalism. The mixture of these two words, which according to our feelings, are completely different from each other, seems to be the appropriate definition of Dayanand. His personality can be explained as a man who has God in his soul, divine brilliance in his eyes and enough power in his hands to create the desired form from the life element and convert his imagination into action. He himself was a solid rock. He had the power to make things strong and shapely by moving a hammer on rock.

  • Guru Rabindranath Tagore
    Nobel Laureate

    My respectful obeisances to that great Guru Dayanand, whose vision saw truth and unity in the spiritual history of India and whose mind illuminated all parts of Indian life. I salute him again and again to the Guru whose aim was to liberate India from ignorance, laziness and ignorance of ancient historical elements and bring it into the awakening of truth and purity. I pay respectful tribute to Dayanand, the guide of modern India, who even in the fallen state of the country, showed Hindus the straight and true path of devotion to God and service to human society.

  • Annie Besant
    British Social Worker and Indian Freedom Fighter

    Swami Dayanand was the first person who raised the slogan of Hindustan for Hindustanies. I have good wishes in my heart for the Arya Samaj and a feeling of true worship in my heart for that great man whom you Aryas respect.

  • Allan Octavian Hume
    Founder of Indian National Congress

    No matter what opinion a person may have about the principles of Swami Dayanand, everyone will have to accept that Swami Dayanand was a pride for his country. India has suffered a great loss by losing Dayanand. He was a great and excellent man.

  • James Ramsey Mcdonald
    Prime Minister, Britain

    Arya Samaj dreams of making the entire world a follower of the Vedas. Swami Dayanand gave it life and principles. He believed that the Arya caste was the chosen race, India was the chosen country and the Vedas were the chosen religious book.

  • Prof. Richard Paul Volcker
    German Scholar

    Swami Dayanand was undoubtedly a sage. He peacefully tolerated the bricks and stones thrown by his opponents. He combined the great past and future in himself. He is immortal even after death. The sage appeared to free man from prison and break caste barriers. The sage’s order is –“Aryavarta! Wake up! The time has come, enter the new era, move forward”.

  • Dr. Maurice Winternitz
    Austrian Scholar

    We must acknowledge the great contribution of Swami Dayanand in giving strong encouragement to the study of Vedas and in proving that idol worship is not in accordance with the Vedas. Even if the founder of Arya Samaj had done nothing else except preparing his followers against the foolishness of the present caste and its disadvantages, he would have definitely been respected as great leader of present India.

  • Colonel Henry Steel Olcott
    American Military Officer, journalist, lawyer, and co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society

    With his death India lost one of its brightest sons. We used to correspond with Swamiji. In fact, he was not only a top person, he was an angel.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American Scholar

    It has to be accepted that Swami Dayanand’s place is very important in the cultural and national awakening of India. His beliefs and principles once filled this caste suffering from inferiority complex with unprecedented enthusiasm.

  • Helena Patrovna Blavatsky
    Founder of Theosophical Society in India

    It is certain that after Shankaracharya, India did not get a greater Sanskrit expert, serious spiritualist, amazing speaker and fearless attacker of evil than Dayanand.

  • Friedrich Max Muller
    German linguist and English translator of Vedic scriptures. Despite being German by birth, he spent most of his life in England and also studied there.

    Swami Dayanand Saraswati did great work for the reform of Hindu religion and as far as social reform is concerned, he had a very generous heart. He based his thoughts on the Vedas and considered them dependent on the knowledge of the sages. He made extensive commentaries on the Vedas, which shows that he was a complete expert. His self-study was very extensive.

  • Saint Romain Roland
    French Writer

    Rishi Dayanand was a man of supreme personality. This male lion was one of those whom Europe often forgets when it forms its opinion about India, but one day Europe will have to accept its mistake and be forced to remember him, because he had a rare combination of talents befitting a thinker and a leader within him besides being a detached performer of action. Dayanand did not tolerate the injustice of untouchability and no one was a more enthusiastic supporter of their usurped rights than him. Dayanand also worked with great generosity and courage in improving the deplorable condition of women in India. In fact, he had the strongest power in giving actionable form to the idea of national sentiment and public awareness. He was one of the most enthusiastic prophets of reconstruction and national organization.

  • Saint Romain Roland
    French Writer

    Rishi Dayanand has infused his tenacious strength, steadfastness and lion valor into the powerless body of India.

  • Sir Monier Williams
    British Scholar

    Swami Dayanand was a monotheist, based his principles on the Vedas, a supporter of progress and a patriot.