“Make no mistake: from it she will inevitably wither, as a tree torn out from its place… India’s roots are struck, and torn from that she will inevitably wither, as a tree torn out from its place… And if Hindus do not maintain Hinduism, who shall save it? If India’s own children do not cling to her faith, who shall guard it? India alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” Annie Besant

Global Hindu Heritage Foundation is pleased to inform you that the overwhelming majority of Bala Samskar Kendras remembered the great social reformer and scholar who left Britain and joined the Independence movement, joined the Congress Party, spoke at National Congress meetings, and wrote extensively about the richness and greatness of Sanatana Dharma. 

Annie Besant made herself able to recognize the divinity in everyone. She was drawn to Hindu traditions and philosophy in India and considered India her motherland, even though it was a foreign country. Born in London to an Irish mother and a British father, she embodies courageous intelligence and can change the world's thinking.

Father died at the age of Raised by mother. As a child, she was enthusiastic and enjoyed studying, playing cricket, music, horse riding, and learning to sew, and she enjoyed nature. Superstition and piety were verystrong, and she read the Bible every day and prayed daily. At the age of 20, the heresy reached such a level that he decided to give his life to the Church. In 1847, she got married to Reverend Frank Centu and had a son and a daughter. For some time, the daughter suffered from illness, and her mother's death led to her losing faith in God and becoming an atheist. Encouraged by an atheist named Charles Brada, she wrote many works under the pen name Ajax and sent them to journals.

At 46, Besant vowed to devote the rest of her life to India, leaving her young son and daughter at home. She became determined to accentuate Hindu spiritualism, its citadel Bharat, its society, culture, and entailing dimensions. She sailed to Bharat from America with Colonel Olcott and moved across the country to get acquainted with people & the land.

The Theosophical Society (Divya Gnana Samaj), founded in 1875, attracted Annie Besant. Annie Besant’s life turned around after reading The Secret Doctrine by Blavatsky. Became a member of the Theosophical Society in 1889.

In 1907, she became the president of the Divya Jnana Samaj. Attracted to the philosophy of Vedanta in the East, he studied India and settled in Varanasi from 1895. It is believed that India has no future if spirituality is abandoned. Annie Besant yearned to revive piety and patriotism among the Indian people, who were forgetting their religion and traditions in the craze of Western culture. It promoted itself using indigenous products.

In 1894, he addressed the Indian National Congress for the first time. The Home Rule Movement started in 1916. Leaders who did not cooperate with her at first eventually joined her. In 1917, she presided over the Calcutta Congress sessions, held the first public mass meetings, and mobilized more women to participate in politics. She had lofty ideas about the country's future. She wanted the country to gain independence so that all Indians could enjoy freedom.

She liked Indian people so much. She wrote that she wrote: “I love the Indian people as I love none other, and… my heart and my mind… have long been laid on the altar of the Motherland.”
While in India, she established the All-India Home Rule League in Chennai in 1916, while the world was. Annie Besant did not formally convert to Hinduism, clarifying that she was a Hindu from birth and had accepted Bharat as her motherland. She used to wear a ‘rudraksha’ necklace over a white gown and often a ‘saree’ in the Tamilian style. Once, Kanchi Shankaracharya was reluctant to share the dais with her (maybe because of her white skin). Besant started her lecture reciting ‘Shiva Stuti’. Listening to her lecture, Shankaracharya exclaimed, “You are the exact incarnation of Mother Saraswati,” during World War I.

She stated that “India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.”

"Among the priceless teachings that may be found in the great Indian epic Mahabharata, there is none so rare and priceless as the Gita... This is the India of which I speak–the India which, as I said, is to me the Holy Land.” Annie Besant

In July 1898, along with Dr. Arthur Richards, Besant founded the Central Hindu School. It’s located in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi. The school's motto was “Knowledge is vitality.” She dreamed of creating of a school that gave a “sound secular education, combined with moral and religious instruction, based on the fundamental tenets of Hinduism.” The school is directly affiliated with Banaras Hindu University. At the time of the school’s founding, there were over 2,000 students. Today, India has schools in Kolkata, Meerut, Delhi, and Indore that bear Besant’s name.

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