Satyarth Prakash: An extract Satyarth Prakash (The Light of Truth) is an 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Vedic scholar,philosopher, thinker and social reformer Swami Dayanand Saraswati - to take society back to the Vedas to live a purposeful and noble life. The book was written in Hindi first, revised in 1882 and is currently available in 20 odd languages worldwide. 1. Jivatamas (Embodied Souls) or Individual Eternal Souls of different persons are apparently different yet have the same common characteristics and are capable of reaching the same peak level of Happiness or Bliss in the state of Moksha or Liberation which implies freedom from birth-rebirth karmic cycle 2, Prakášti or Nature, which is the material cause for the Creation, is also cyclically eternal and is characterised by Sattva (pure existence), Rajas (Rajah means to shine, light or that which conveys information about existence) and Tamas (existence unknowable in its form or ignorance coupled wit...