UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE CONFERENCE - KEY NOTE ADDRESS - PROF N RADHAKRISHNAN
Vinoba Bhave - the spiritual heir to Gandhi
In 1940 Gandhi surprised many of his close colleagues when he nominated a small and little known man as the first Individual Satyagrahi (whom Gandhi later designated as his spiritual heir) to raise the flag of independence and experiment how nonviolence could be used to turn the hearts of the rich to compassion and piety. This unassuming man broadened the base of nonviolence in me next four decades by undertaking what is now known as me "Bhoodan" (land gift) Movement, which earned him the name 'walking saint' who collected land for the landless. He is Vinoba Bhave, a man of great purity and vision. That this man was able to move the hearts of tens of thousands of landlords all over India that they willingly donated over four million acres of land to be distributed to the landless speaks volumes of how nonviolence could work if it is conceived and implemented properly. This is an extraordinary development unprecedented anywhere in the history of the world and ...
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