Swami Omanand Sarswati

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Swami Omanand Sarswati
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Swami Omanand Sarsswati (1910 - 2003) (स्वामी ओमानन्द सरस्वती) was a freedom fighter, educationist, historian and a social worker from Haryana in India. He was born in March 1910 in village ‘Narela’ near Delhi. He was only son of his father. His father was Chaudhari Kanak Singh, of 'Khatri' gotra. He was a Jat zamindar and ‘numberdar’ of village Narela (Pana Mamoorpura]], owning 350 bighas of land.



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Education

Swami Omanand got his primary education in his village ‘Narela’ in Musaddi Lal High School. He got Higher education from St. Stephen College, Delhi. After the sacrifice of Shahid Bhagat Singh, he left his education of B.A. midway and joined the Indian freedom movement. He studied Vedas and Puranas at Gurukul Dayanand Ved Vidyalaya Delhi, Gurukul Chittorgath and Gurukul Pothodar, Rawalpindi. He knew 18 languages including ancient languages like Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi etc.


Joined Freedom Movement

The parents of Swami Omanand wanted to finish his college education, get married and settled down as rich Jat landlord. But this Young boy was inspired by the freedom fighters Shahid Bhagat Singh and Sir Chhotu Ram.

Swami Omanand during Chandigarh Andolan in 1969

Swami Omanand left his higher education incomplete and joined the Indian freedom movement. He was sent to jail in 1939 for taking part in Nizam Hyderabad Satyagrah. Later he went to jail several times. He also spearheaded the "Hindi Andolan" in 1965 when Punjabi was made a compulsory subject in Hindi speaking areas of Haryana, which was then a part of Punjab. At that time most leaders were arrested but Punjab Govt. could not arrest him as Swamiji developed tactics to escape arrest (he migrated shortly to UP and Rajasthan and led the Movement from there). After creation of Haryana in 1966, Swami Omanand led the famous "Chandigarh Satyagraha" due to which Chandigarh could not be transferred to Punjab and is still a Union Territory.

Consecrated in Brahmcharya

Swami Omanand’s real name was Bhagwan Singh. He decided not to marry got consecrated in Brahmcharya principles. He was named Brahmchari Bhagwan Dev in 1939. He performed hard self-mortification. He left the use of salt, sweets, spices etc. He started wearing clothes of khadi only. He sacrificed everything, almost everything for the up-liftment of the Jats. He was a man who had his own values and principles and always lived with them.

Social Services

Swami Omanand left home in 1942 and accepted the post of ‘Acharya’ and ‘Mukhya Adhishthata’ of Gurukul Jhajjar on the occasion of Diwali on the special requests of Arya Samaj. He had started & managed 55 Gurukuls in Haryana and all over India.

In 1947 he did a great service to the refugees who came from Pakistan on the division of India. He has been always at the service of human kind during famines, floods, earthquakes etc. He started the cancer hospital at Jhajjar & giving away free medicines to all.

Swami Omanand did a great struggle for the eradication of social evils like dowry, intoxication, and extravaganza on social occasions etc. He believed that the social evils could be eliminated through democratic Panchayat System. He started many social movements like ‘Nasha Mukti Andolan’, ‘Goraksha Andolan’, Anti - dowry Movement & ‘Sudhi Andolan’.

He visited a number of countries like Japan, Germany, England, Australia, Russia, USA, Maritius, Africa, Java, Sumatra, Thailand, Taiwan, China etc. for the spread of Vedic education. He carried the message of peace, love & brotherhood to every corner of the world.

He was engaged in number of social organizations. Such as Chief of Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, Haryana, Advisor of All India History Council, Vice Chancellor of Gurukul Jhajjar University, member of the senate of Maharishi Dayanand University Rohtak and Gurukul Kangri University (Hardwar), associate of Arya Pratinidhi Sabha etc. He was president of World Arya Samaj Propkarini Sabha Ajmer.

He was the founder of Kanya Gurukul Narela. He donated his 70 acres of land at village Narela to Kanya Gurukul Narela. He was also the founder of Jhajjar Gurukul University. His collection in the museum is awesome. Besides, there are many books on Jats written by him which one can find in Gurukul's library.

Awards

Swami Omanand was awarded ‘Rashtriya Pandit’ by the government of India and ‘Sanskrit pundit’ by the Haryana government for the services rendered by him. He was also awarded ‘Vidyamartand’ by Gurukul Kangri Haridwar. Lt. Governor of Delhi also honoured him for services towards promotion of literature.


As Author

Swami Omanand was a great Reformer, Educationist, Social worker, expert on Ayurvedic medicines, Yoga. He was a great historian also and had the capability to read ancient scripts like Brahmi, Kharoshti etc.. He has written many books on history. The important books written by him are:


  • भारत की प्राचीन मुद्रायें
  • वीर हेमू
  • शेरशाह सूरी
  • ब्रह्मचर्यामृत
  • बालविवाह से हानियां
  • हमारा शत्रु (तम्बाकू)
  • पापों की जड़ (शराब)
  • नेत्र रक्षा
  • व्यायाम का महत्व
  • रामराज्य कैसे हो
  • ब्रह्मचर्य के साधन (१० भागों में)
  • वैदिक देवता
  • मांस मनुष्य का भोजन नहीं
  • गोदुग्ध अमृत है

He also wrote several books on Ayurveda and Ayurvedic medicine. Some titles are:

  • बिच्छूविष चिकित्सा
  • सर्पविष चिकित्सा
  • स्वप्नदोष चिकित्सा


  • कण्टकारी
  • जम्बु (जामुन)
  • श्‍लीपद चिकित्सा etc.

Swamiji also propagated some other literature by others authors. For example, he propagated the famous novel (written by Saiyyah sunami) - Akhir Jit Hamari आखिर जीत हमारी - now an on-line book at Jatland Wiki.


Swamy Omanand Breathed his last at Jaipur Golden Hospital, Delhi on Sunday 23 March 2003 at the age of 93.

Biography of Swami Omanand Saraswati

जाटलैंड डॉट काम के इस लिंक पर पढ़िये - स्वामी ओमानन्द सरस्वती का जीवन-चरित


लेखक - डॉ. योगानन्द


जीवनी (पुस्तक) के इलैक्ट्रॉनिक प्रारूप के निर्माता - दयानन्द देसवाल

Reference

  • Jat Samaj: Agra, June 1999


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