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Pradeep Kumar

13/03/21 10:30 AM IST

Ayya Vaikunda Swamikal

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid his respects  to Ayya Vaikunda Swamikal on his birth anniversary

About Ayya Vaikunda
  • Ayya Vaikundar(Vaikunda Swami)(1809-1851), a great humanist and social thinker, lived in the Princely Kingdom of Travancore in the early decades of the 19th Century Kerala, is still remembered as the first well known social reformer in India who critiqued the caste discrimination and religious hierarchy and fought against the practice of untouchability.
  • Being the founder of ‘Samathwa Samajam’, the first socio reform movement in India (1836), Ayya Vaikundar is considered as the pioneer of such revolutionary movements in India.
  • His exhortation ‘One caste, One religion, One Clan, One world, One God’’ is world famous.
  • His theory and practice like ‘samathva samajam’ , ‘sama panthi bhojan’ , ‘thottu namam podunkal’ were much enough to cultivate a thought of equality and unity in Indian minds.
Source: PIB

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