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Vinayak Narahari Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave ( pronunciation ⓘ; 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Teacher in Sanskrit ), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave was a nonviolence activist, freedom activist, social reformer and spiritual teacher. An avid follower of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba upheld his doctrines of non-violence and equality. He dedicated his life to serve the poor and the downtrodden, and stood up for their rights.
Paramdham Prakashan. This website has been hosted by Paramdham Prakashan, a wing of Gram-sewa Mandal, Wardha, which is the only institution that Vinoba founded and which holds copyright of Vinoba’s literature.
Sep 14, 2023 · Acharya Vinoba Bhave was one of India’s best-known social reformers and a widely acclaimed disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the founder of the Bhoodan and Gramdan movements. Read here to learn more about his life.
Vinayak Narhar Bhave, who later became known as Vinoba, was born on 11 September 1895 at Gagode, a tiny and predominantly tribal hamlet in the coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra. He spent eight formative years of his life amidst the picturesque beauty of the village.
Vinoba saw the land as the gift of God like air, water, sky and sunshine. He connected science with spirituality and the autonomous village with the world movement. He regarded the power of the people superior than power of the state.
Vinoba Bhave was one of India’s best-known social reformers and a widely venerated disciple of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi. Bhave was the founder of the Bhoodan Yajna (“Land-Gift Movement”). Born of a high-caste Brahman family, he abandoned his high school studies in 1916 to join Gandhi’s ashram.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave, the founder of many movements and hermitages, and hardly known outside India before 1940, became a world figure soon after the Bhoodan Movement.
Vinoba saw the land as the gift of God like air, water, sky and sunshine. He connected science with spirituality and the autonomous village with the world movement. He regarded the power of the people superior than power of the state.
Vinoba established Gram-sewa Mandal in 1934 to work for village service in an integrated way, as an extension of the Satyagraha Ashram at Wardha. The Mandal did pioneering work in the field and was instrumental in launching institutions to look after neglected areas like leprosy and removal of hides of dead cattle.
