The correct answer is
2 and
3 only.
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.