Key Points - Swami Dayananda, traveled all over the North to places like Ajmer, Haridwar, Jaipur, Meerut, Gwalior, spreading the knowledge of Vedas among ordinary people. - He mentioned that Idol worship was never a part of the Vedas, and God has no shape nor form. - Swami Dayanand Saraswati opposed the worship of idols of Gods and Goddesses. Hence statement 1 is correct. - He rejected all later religious thought on the grounds of its conflict with the Vedas. - Dayanand regarded the Vedas as eternal and infallible and laid down his own interpretations of them in a book entitled Satyārth Prakāś. - He considered the Vedas to be the inspired word of God and the fount of all knowledge. Hence statement 2 is correct. - Initially, Swami had lectured in Sanskrit with the help of interpreters. - But on the advice of Keshab Chandra Sen, the Swami started lecturing in Hindi. - The idea of organizing the Arya Sarnaj originated after the Calcutta visit. - In Calcutta, Dayanand met Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Barrister Chandra Shekhar Sen, Barrister Umeshchandra Bandhopadhya and Pt. Satyavrat Samshrami. Hence statement 3 is correct.
