Vinoba Bhave
Vinoba Bhave
Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba" Bhave; 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982) was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mohandas Gandhi. He was the 1st person to be selected as a Satyagrahi followed by J.L Nehru in Individual Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth11 September 1895
CountryIndia
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.