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Updated: June 19, 2025
They emphasize the unity of God, the infallibility of the Vedas; and the general aim of the Somaj is "to do good to the world by improving the physical, social, intellectual, moral, and spiritual condition of mankind." Its moral code is of a high order. It is thoroughly national in its spirit, and makes much capital out of the present spirit of racial antagonism.
Perhaps the very highest tribute which Hinduism has paid to Christianity is seen in the fact that the modern Arya Somaj has borrowed its ethics and some of its religious doctrines, and is promulgating them under Vedic labels and upon Vedic authority. It has renounced those corruptions of Hinduism which can no longer bear the light such as enforced widowhood and the general oppression of woman.
All the world over there is this stirring in the dry bones of the old beliefs. There is scarcely a religion that has not its Bahaism, its Modernists, its Brahmo Somaj, its "religion without theology," its attempts to escape from old forms and hampering associations to that living and world-wide spiritual reality upon which the human mind almost instinctively insists. . . .
The most important of all these movements was the Arya Somaj in the Punjab, whose watchwords were "Back to the Vedas" and "Arya for the Aryans." The latter has sometimes barely disguised a more than merely platonic desire to see the British disappear out of the Aryan land of India.
It is said that Arya Somaj became affiliated with it in 1879, though we have seen no result of this affiliation. The objects of Theosophy are said to be three: The establishment of a universal brotherhood. The study of ancient languages. Investigation of the hidden mysteries of nature and the latent psychical forces of man.
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