uch as Islam and it is well known that the British Christians had a great influence on India at the time of Dayananda, especially in areas of religion. Dayananda seems to have felt that a reform had to be made to the 'chaos' of Hinduism. One such author agrees to Dayananda's claim,"The practice of Hindu religion in early centuries of Christian era became somewhat confused and in disarray..." (Balakrishnan 5). This is why Dayananda felt that Hinduism should focus monotheistically to one God. Also because he repulsed at the offensive proclamations from the missionaries about the 'polytheistic' Hinduism as a way of spreading their own faith. As one author states: The Christian missionaries had their own presses and their ceaseless propaganda poured ridicule on the Hindu religion, so much so that the average Hindu began to feel ashamed of his 'inferior' religion" (Arya & Shastri 114). And so, Dayananda appeared on the scene and in many ways ended this widespread inferiority complex of the Hindus. Dayananda argued that if God was indeed 'the One' in Christianity, how could Satan have so much power as to mislead the Son of God, Adam? And the same analogy was made for Islam. Dayananda argued that even though Muslims believe that all is done according to God's wishes and only He is responsible for acquittal and /or punishment, then how is it, that salvation can be rendered in putting complete trust in a Prophet? Therefore from these arguments it is shown that Christianity and other religions were not as 'focused' to one God as they were preached deceivingly so. Dayananda reassured the Hindus that faith in the Vedas was just as powerful a tool to reach the one true God as was any other religion. Dayananda's view was so influential at the time that one author acknowledges: "For he (Dayananada) appeared as sole guarantee against wholesale conversions" (Arya & Shastri 114). Nevertheless, if we take a purely philosophical viewpoint, we natura...
