Swami Satyabhakta
| Swami Satyabhakta | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
10 November 1899 Shahpur, Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh |
| Died |
10 December 1998 (aged 99) Wardha, Maharashtra |
| Guru | Shiksha-Guru Ganeshprasad Varni |
| Philosophy | syncretic and rationalistic. |
| Literary works | Manav Dharmashastra (1951) etc. |
| Quotation | "भाई पढ़ले यह संसार, खुला हुआ है महा शास्त्र, यह शास्त्रों का आधार"[1] |
Swami Satyabhakta (Hindi:स्वामी सत्यभक्त) (born as Darbarilal; 10 November 1899 – 10 December 1998) was a scholar, philosopher, reformer and the founder of Satya Samaj.[2]
Early life
Born Mulchanda at Shahpur, Sagar, he moved to Damoh to his aunt's house after the death of his mother at age 4, where he was renamed Darbarilal. He met Ganeshprasad Varni at Damoh and influenced by him, he joined the pathshala established by Varniji at Sagar. At age 19, he graduated with the title Nyayatirth and became a teacher at Sdyavad Vdyalaya at Varanasi for a year. He then moved to Seoni and then Indore, where he developed his rationalistic principles.
In 1923, he became a reformer.[3] He lived in Bombay during 1926-1936, where he edited Jain Jagat and Jain Prakash. He started writing a series of articles that were later compiled into Jain Dharma Samiksha.[4] He eventually moved to Wardha in 1936 and established his Ashrama there.
Works
He was a prolific author. His writings include Buddhahrdayamu,[5] Jain Dharm Mimansa,[6] Mahavira ka Antsthal,[7] Manav Bhasha,[8] Meri Africa yatra,[9] Anmol Patra[10] etc. Swamiji worked hard to evolve in 1945-46 the new language which swamiji called Manavbhasa of which grammar is complete and having no exceptions and very simple and can be learn in a month. “Aditi” of Sri Aurobindo Ashram wrote four pages about Manavbhasha. Swamiji compare Manavbhasha with Esperanto another language by Zamenhof a Polish Eye Surgen in 1887 and a book named Esperanto verses Manavbhasha was published in 1971.
His early work was published as Darbarilal Nyayatirth (as an orthodox Jain scholar) Darbarilal Satyabhakta during the transitional period. He contested against Zakir Hussain in the Indian presidential election, 1967 but failed to win any votes.[11]
Satya Samaj
The religious/philosophical movement Satya Samaj founded by him in 1934 and is active in several regions of India [12][13] and UK.[14]
Influence
He was an early rationalistic syncretic philosopher. Osho has described meeting him and discussing establishing a new religious order[15] While he was in Bombay, he was a friend of both Nathuram Premi and Sukhlal Sanghvi known for their open minded perspective.[16]
Footnotes
- ↑ अखण्ड ज्योति 1967 नवम्बर
- ↑ In The Mirror Of My Memories, Life Of Pandit Nathu Ram Premi: Scholar And Social Reformer, by Pandit Sukhlal Sanghvi, Jain Jagaran ke Agraduta, Bharatiya Jnanapitha, 1952, p. 267-268
- ↑ Sadhu Satyasnehi, Sankshipt Jivan Parichaya, 1999
- ↑ Jain Dharma Samiksha, 1958
- ↑ Buddhahrdayamu, Siddayya, Shaik, Satyabhakta, Darbarilal,1967
- ↑ Jain Dharm Mimansa, Darbarilal Satyabhakt, Satya Samaj Granthmala, Bombay, 1936
- ↑ Mahavira ka Antsthal, Satyashram Wardha, 1943
- ↑ Hindī vyākaraṇa kā itihāsa, Ananta Caudharī, Bihāra Hindī Grantha Akādemī, 1972
- ↑ Yātrā-sāhitya kā udbhava aura vikāsa, Surendra Māthura, Sāhitya-prakāśana,1962
- ↑ Hindī kā patra-sāhitya, Kamala Puñjānī Kr̥shṇā Pradarsa, 1983
- ↑ "PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FROM 1952 TO 1997" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ↑ Satya Samaj Prayag, Samaj Sudharak: Raja Rammohan Rai, Lalbahadur Singh Chauhan, Atmaram & Sons, p.95
- ↑ सत्याश्रम सत्य समाज के कुलाचार्य, Dainik Bhaskar, August 2010, http://www4.bhaskar.com/article/MP-OTH-1517233-2331525.html
- ↑ Sarvdesic Satya Samaj UK, http://www.satyasamajuk.com
- ↑ स्वर्णिम बचपन, मैं एक आदमी को जानता हूं…वे है स्वामी सत्य भक्त, http://oshosatsang.org/category/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87/
- ↑ In The Mirror Of My Memories, Life Of Pandit Nathu Ram Premi: Scholar And Social Reformer, by Pandit Sukhlal Sanghvi, Jain Jagaran ke Agraduta, Bharatiya Jnanapitha, 1952, p. 267-268