RELG 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dayananda Saraswati, Upanishads, Vaishnavism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 353
• Professor: Michael Gollner

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Number of reformers created vision of united hinduism. Opposed to image worship and believed that it was a departure from. Vedanta=school of philosophy that was elite (sanskrit) and roy wanted to. Gandhi"s ideas built on these people"s reformist ideas. One of the first (indu"s to engage with colonial critiques of (indu ideas and practices wrote articles/public letters etc. to defend practices associated (cid:498)superior(cid:499) religious outlook of upanishads. Advocated for return to ideas of the upanishads neo-vedanta some sense one have essential/common foundations(cid:524) )nstrumental in abolition of sati (cid:523)(cid:498)suttee(cid:499)(cid:524) immolation of widow on husband"s funeral pyre, which was seen as evidence of the (cid:498)debased nature of (induism(cid:499) by the british and was seen as a stain on (cid:498)true(cid:499) (induism by. Also founded the brahmo samaj (brahman society) prominent intellectuals. Hung up on european views of religious unity (idea that all religions are in.