Introduction The word Satyartha Prakash literally means “to shed light on the truth”. Swami Dayananda Saraswati lived from 1824 to 1883. The sole purpose of his life was to find out the truth about life, about God, and about everything else that exists. After studying most, if not all, important writings on Hindu Dharma starting from the Vedas, he put together a treatise to summarize his views based on the truth. Satyartha Prakash has fourteen chapters. The first ten chapters deal with the different subjects in life, and the last four is a critique on what he saw was wrong with the practice of