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The Life and Philosophy The ideal of ‘Antyodaya’
The ideal of ‘Antyodaya’
The Life and Philosophy
of Pandit Deendayal Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya proposed the
of Pandit Deendayal
‘Antyodaya’ philosophy, which means the ‘rise of
Upadhyaya the last person.’ He stressed upon ‘Antyodaya’ to rid
Upadhyaya
the nation of extreme poverty. It is the basic
principle of the political and economic thoughts of
Born on September 25, 1916, in the village of Shri Upadhyaya. Deendayal Ji in his economic policy
always emphasized on the welfare of the poorest of
Nagla Chandrabhan in Mathura District, Pandit the poor. The last man in the society was at the
Deendayal Upadhyaya was the eldest son of Shri centre of his economic thoughts. He said, “The
Bhagwati Prasad and Shrimati Rampyari. Having success of economic planning and economic
lost both his parents at an early age, he was progress will not be measured through those who
brought up by his maternal grandfather and then are at the top of the society’s ladder, but through
his maternal uncle. But despite the loss he faced, the people at the lowest rung of the society.” He
Deendayal Ji drew strength from the opposing was of the view that the state should assure a
forces and sufferings around him and developed a minimum standard of living for all individuals.
unique personality that typified how a person
could rise above his circumstances through sheer
grit and determination.
The ideal of ‘Integral Humanism’
A profound philosopher, an The ideal of ‘Integral Humanism’
organiser par excellence and
a leader who maintained the He propounded the philosophy of Integral
highest standards of personal Humanism which discovers the threads of
integrity, Pandit Deendayal integration in apparent separateness. It is the idea
Upadhyaya’s morals were well of integration of individuals with society and
reflected in his publications nature and thus it gives freedom from conflict and
‘Rashtra Dharma’, prejudice. According to him, Indian tradition
‘Panchajanya’, and ‘Swadesh’. rejects the separateness between the individual,
As the leader of the Bharatiya society and nature and establishes its relationship
Jana Sangh from 1953 to with both the unconscious and conscious. Every
1968, he raised a band of individual of the society is mutually linked, this
world is not an alien place, this earth is a family
dedicated workers imbued that frees us from the ideas of separateness,
with idealism and provided alienation and dialectical relationship.
the entire ideological
framework of the Integral humanism rejected the intrinsic diversity
organisation. His philosophy based on race, colour, caste or religion, it
of Integral Humanism, which identified all human beings as part of this one
is a synthesis of the material organic whole, sharing a common consciousness
and the spiritual, the of national thought. The people of all other faiths
individual and the collective, and sects are essentially one and their intrinsic
bears eloquent testimony to unity should be based on this common
this. consciousness of “Rashtriyata”.
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