Satyananda Stokes

Satyananda Stokes (born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.,, August 16 , 1882 – May 14 , 1946) was an American who settled in India and participated in the Indian Independence Movement. He read Satyarth Parkash and met Mr. Rulya Ram Arya. After that he changed his name to Satyanand Arya and after some times he used his surname Stokes. He is best remembered today for having introduced apple cultivation to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where apples are today the major horticultural export crop.

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"Each of us who takes spiritual matters seriously finds in the course of time the path wherein his spiritual aspirations and needs find their truest satisfaction. It was because I found mine in the spiritual outlook of the Upanishads and the Gita more completely than anywhere else that I wished to be a member of the Hindu community and thus afford those I loved the opportunity to develop freely and naturally in the midst of the atmosphere that had these great scriptures as their basis."

- Satyananda Stokes

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"A new caste system, based on race and power, would become firmly established with the German “Aryan” as Brahman and Kshatriya, the other European races as Vaishya, and the non-European peoples as the Shudras of the world."