India, Jan. 3 -- In the late 19th century, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj, issued a clarion call to go "back to the Vedas" through his seminal work Satyarth Prakash (The Light of Truth). Written in 1875, it responded to a period when Hindu society had become entangled in ritualism, superstition, and rigid orthodoxy, far removed from the ethical and philosophical essence of the Vedas. Dayanand's intervention was reformist in spirit-a return to original moral, rational, and spiritual foundations.

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