* April 10 – The Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda.

" Other prominent personalities whose first language is or was Gujarati include Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Morarji Desai, Narsinh Mehta, Dhirubhai Ambani, and J. R. D. Tata.

In Swami Dayananda Saraswati's " translation ", these verses become:

The new movements look up to Swami Vivekananda ; Rabindranath Tagore ; Ramana Maharshi ; Shri Aurobindo ( for his Integral Yoga ); Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( founder of the modern Hare Krishna movement ); Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama Tirtha ; Narayana Guru, Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, Paramhansa Yogananda ; Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

More recently, the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Shirdi Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, Swami Muktananda, Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Shriram Sharma Acharya, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Mata Amritanandamayi has inspired millions to create new centers of spiritual development.

Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji was born as Natarajan in Manjakudi-Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu on August 15, 1930 to Shri Gopal Iyer and Smt.

He was given Sannyasa diksha by Swami Chinmayananda on the auspicious Sivaratri day, in 1962 and was given the diksha name Swami Dayananda Saraswati.

On his return to Bombay from Rishikesh in 1968, Swami Dayananda was asked to start the new Brahmachari / ni training programme in Sandipany.

The first course, as designed by Swami Dayananda started in 1972.

In a later interview, Swami Dayananda summed up the new courses ' design as follows: ' What would take a Sadhu in the Himalayas nine years to learn, the brahmacharis at Sandipany learned in two-and-half years.

Swami Dayananda has been teaching Vedanta in India for more than four decades, and around the world since 1972.

Swami Dayananda designed and taught six residential in-depth Vedanta courses ( 1.

In 1986, Swami Dayananda Saraswati founded the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, a Gurukulam that has branches in India and the United States.

In addition to teaching, Swami Dayananda has initiated and supported various philanthropic efforts.

This movement enjoys the blessing of all traditional Hindu spiritual leaders who have united as a single body, the Acarya Sabha, through the coordinating efforts of Swami Dayananda.

In November 2001, Swami Dayananda convened the first World Congress for the Preservation of Religious Diversity in Delhi, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama and the then Prime Minister Mr. A. B. Vajpayee.

** Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga ( d. 2009 )

* Swami Chidananda Saraswati ( 1916 – 2008 )

Swami Dayanand Saraswati ) states,

* Durga Puja Beginner, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Devi Mandir, 2001.

*" Chandi Path ", Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Devi Mandir ( ISBN 1-877795-52-6 )

*" Chandi Path: Study of Chapter One ", Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Devi Mandir ( ISBN 1-877795-58-5 )

*" Chandi Path: Study of Chapter Two ", Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Devi Mandir ( ISBN 1-877795-60-7 )

*" Pronunciation and the Chandi Samputs ", Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Devi Mandir ( ISBN 1-877795-61-5 )

*" Devi Gita ", Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Devi Mandir ( ISBN 1-877795-56-9 )

Legendary figures such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like Swami Sahajanand Saraswati wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toiling masses.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya ( spiritual leader ) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas.

While a few sources say that he worked in a factory for some time most report that in 1941, he became an administrative secretary to the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati ( also known as Guru Dev ) and took a new name, Bal Brahmachari Mahesh.

Brahmachari Mahesh remained with Swami Brahmananda Saraswati until the latter died in 1953, when he moved to Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas.

The Shankaracharya, at the end of his life, charged Brahmachari Mahesh with the responsibility of travelling and teaching meditation to the masses, while he named Swami Shantananda Saraswati as his successor.

The All India Kisan Sabha ( AIKS ) was formed at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress on 11 April 1936, with the legendary nationalist Swami Sahajanand Saraswati elected as its first President, in order to address the longstanding grievances of the peasantry and mobilise them against the zamindari landlords attacks on their occupancy rights, thus sparking the Farmers movements in India.

The institute in Pennsylvania was founded in 1986 by Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji

* 1986 – Hindi commentary by Swami Lakshmanjoo on Abhinavagupta's Bhagavad Gitartha Samgraha

* 2006 – Trika Rahasya Prakriya, by Swami Lakshmanjoo ( Sanskrit verses with Hindi commentary )

About this time he also translated Swami Vivekananda's Chicago lectures in local Hindi.

His works have been made into some fifty films in many Indian languages, particularly his novel Devdas made into eight versions, from Bengali, Hindi to Telugu, Parineeta also been made twice, Majhli Didi ( 1967 ) by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Swami ( 1977 ) for which he was awarded Filmfare Award for Best Story.

* Swami Sahajanand and the Peasants of Jharkhand: A View from 1941 translated and edited by Walter Hauser along with the unedited Hindi original ( Manohar Publishers, paperback, 2005 ).

* Devanand, Swami, 1958, Virat Kisan Samaroh ( Massive Peasant Convention ), in Hindi, Bihar Kisan Sangh, Bihta.

* Swami Sahajanand, 1916, Bhumihar Brahman Parichay ( Introduction to Bhumihar Brahmins ), in Hindi, Benaras (?

* Swami Sahajanand, 1947, Kisan Sabha ke Sansmaran ( Recollections of the Kisan Sabha ), in Hindi, Bihta.

* Swami Sahajanand, 1952, Mera Jeewan Sangharsha ( My LIfe Struggle ), in Hindi, Patna.

* Swami Sahajanand, a, Brahman Samaj ki Sthiti ( Situation of the Brahmin Society ) in Hindi, Benaras (?

* Swami Sahajanand ,-b, Karmakalap, in Sanskrit and Hindi, Benaras (?

* Swami Sahajanand ,-c, Jhootha Bhay Mithya Abhiman ( False Fear False Pride ), in Hindi, Patna (?

* Swami Sahajanand ,-d, Kisanon ko Phansane ki Taiariyan ( Plans to Ensnare Peasants ), in Hindi, Bihta.

* Swami Sahajanand ,-f, Gaya ke Kisanon ki Karun Kahani ( Pathetic Plight of the Peasants of Gaya ), in Hindi, Patna (?

* Sahajanand, Swami ,-g, Khet Mazdoor ( Agricultural Labourer ), in Hindi, written in Hazaribagh Central Jail.

* Swami Sahajanand ,-h, Maharudra ka Mahatandav, in Hindi, Bihta (?

At Syracuse University, he studied South Asian religions and Sanskrit literature under Prof. H. Daniel Smith and Swami Agehananda Bharati, Hindi language under Prof. Jishnu Shankar, history of religions under Prof. Charles H. Long, music theory and history under Prof. Howard Boatwright, and ethnomusicology from Prof. Ellen Koskoff.

Arvind Swami is an Indian film actor who has featured in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi language films.

* Swami Sahajanand and the Peasants of Jharkhand: A View from 1941 translated and edited by Walter Hauser along with the unedited Hindi original ( Manohar Publishers, paperback, 2005 ).