Question

What were the aims of the organization “Pratyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha” founded by Poykayil Kumara Gurudevan?
A) Philanthropy
B) Universal brotherhood
C) World peace
D) All of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Within the late $19^{th}$ and early $20^{th}$ century an interesting devout movement that emerged in Kerala was Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha or PRDS. The wealthy, dynamic and complex history of PRDS has long been disregarded.

Complete answer:
Poykayil Sree Kumara Gurudevan proliferated his philosophies through songs and speeches that communicated the tragedies and miseries of subjugation and the challenge of the depressed. Poikayil Appachan was initially named Komaran (slave castes were not permitted to utilize appropriate names. Komaran is the ‘impure’ adaptation of Kumaran). Amid his childhood days Kumaran, just like the other slave kids, had to work for his proprietors. He started questioning the ideals of the caste system and tried to change it by highlighting the need for equality. He was a social reformer who combined information and otherworldly existence for the freedom of the discouraged classes. He battled against caste separation or discrimination and abuse and established the organization Pratyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha for philanthropy, all inclusive brotherhood and world peace i.e. an perfect, ideal of happiness and freedom among the people of the world.
Hence, the correct option is, ‘D) All of the above’.

Note: Poikayil Appachan established an interchange zealous sect because of the caste discriminations he confronted inside Christianity. These elucidations confine PRDS to a unimportant anti-caste development and deny to recognize the immensity and totality of otherworldly belief systems it has.