Satyarth Prakash English Paperback

The Satyartha Prakhash (The light of Truth) is the masterpiece of Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Some call it
as Magnum Opus. No doubt, it is a great literary undertaking, as the lexicographic contents denote. But I go
a step further. The lexicon (Oxford) says, Magnum, a bottle containing a certain quantity of wine. But as
the great writer of this masterpiece Swami Dayanand was a symbol of ultimate morality and spiritualism
and was a sage of standing, he never touched a drop of wine. And so his present work down not contain any
such alcoholic impact. But one thing is undoubtedly true about it. This great, book is, indeed, and
encyclopedia of the various contemporary social religious and political currents cross-currents and
movements going on at the time of the writer’s life. To go it further, the writer has not spared the past
events and guiding philosophies, which has polluted the human mind and deteriorated the man’s quest for
true knowledge and right way of life.
When one analyzes this work for this angle, we have witnessed that this great masterwork of Swami
Dayanand Saraswati positively mad w revolution in the socio-political fabric notonly of the Indians but of
the whole mankind. It created a new flutter and awakening in the society, that made the various thinkers
and followers and scholars of different faiths and sects to make drastic changes in their concepts, beliefs
and interpretations contained in their Books of Faith. No doubt, much more crusading spirit was witnessed
among the readers of this book who hailed from different races, communities and groups. The word
Magnum, therefore, has no parallel like that in the context of this work.
Its repeated study, research and investigation have greatly contributed to the thinking of humankind, since
it was written by the author, more than a hundred years ago.