[GHHF] Bala Samskar Kendras – Students learned about Anne Besant who came from Britain, worked for Independence and written extensively about Hinduism.
“Make no mistake; without Hinduism, India has no future. Hinduism is the soil into which India’s roots are struck, and torn of that she will inevitably wither, as a tree torn out from its place …. And if Hindus do not maintain Hinduism, who shall save it? If India’s own children do not cling to her faith, who shall guard it? India alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” Anne Besant
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation is very happy to inform you that the overwhelming majority of Bala Samskar Kendras remembered the great social reformer and a scholar who left Britain and joined the Independence movement, joined the Congress Pary, spoke at the National Congress meetings and written extensively about the richness and greatness of Sanatana Dharma.
It is Anne Besant (1847-1933), who made herself able to recognize the divinity in everyone. She was attracted to Hindu traditions and philosophy in India and considered India as her motherland even though she was a foreign country. Born in London to an Irish mother and a British father, a woman who embodies the courage of intelligence can change the world's thoughts.
Father died at the age of Raised by mother. As a child, she was very enthusiastic and enjoyed studying, playing cricket, music, horse riding and learning sewing while enjoying nature. Superstition and piety were very much and read the Bible every day with daily prayers. At the age of 20, the heresy reached such a level that he decided to give his life to the Church. In 1847, she got married to Reverend Frank Centu and had a son and a daughter. For some time, the daughter suffered from illness and her mother's death led to her losing faith in God and becoming an atheist. Encouraged by an atheist named Charles Brada, she wrote many works under the pen name Ajax and sent them to journals.
The Theosophical Society (Divya Gnana Samaj), founded in 1875, attracted Anne Besant. Anne Besant’s life turned around after reading The Secret Doctrine by Blavatsky. Became a member of the Theosophical Society in 1889.
In 1907, she became the president of the Divya Jnana Samaj. Attracted to the philosophy of Vedanta in the East, he studied India and settled in Varanasi from 1895. It is believed that India has no future if spirituality is abandoned. Anne Besant yearned to revive piety and patriotism among the Indian people, who were forgetting their religion and traditions in the craze of Western culture. It promoted itself using indigenous products.
In 1894, he addressed the Indian National Congress for the first time. The Home Rule Movement started in 1916. Leaders who did not cooperate with her at first eventually cooperated with Anne Besant. In 1917, she presided over the Calcutta Congress Sessions and held the first public mass meetings and mobilized more women to participate in politics. She has lofty ideas about the country's future. She wanted the country to gain independence so that all Indians could enjoy freedom.
She liked Indian people so much. She wrote that she wrote: “I love the Indian people as I love none other, and… my heart and my mind… have long been laid on the altar of the Motherland.”
While in India, she established the All-India Home Rule League in Chennai in 1916, while the world was in the midst of World War 1.
In July 1898, along with Dr. Arthur Richards, Besant founded the Central Hindu School. It’s located in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi. The school went by the motto “Knowledge is vitality.” She dreamed of creating of a school that gave a “sound secular education, combined with moral and religious instruction, based on the fundamental tenets of Hinduism.” The school is directly affiliated with Banaras Hindu University. At the time of the school’s founding, there were over 2,000 students. Today in India there are schools in the cities of Kolkata, Meerut, Delhi, and Indore, that bear Besant’s name.
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