Vinoba Bhave (born September 11, 1895, Gagode, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died November 15, 1982, Wardha, Maharashtra) 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 (ascetic community) at Sabarmati, near Ahmadabad. Gandhi’s ... Vinoba Bhave was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights, and a spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He is known for the Bhoodan Movement, the individual Satyagraha, and his translations of the Bhagavad Gita. Learn about the life and work of Vinoba Bhave , a spiritual visionary and Gandhiji's ardent follower. He started the Bhoodan (Gift of the Land) movement and wrote on various topics of religion, philosophy, education and Sarvi. Acharya Vinoba Bhave Associates of Mahatma Gandhi"I know of nothing which is of greater value than reading the Gita. And yet, I have found a living person who follows the philosophy of Gita in his own life. He is my master and lives in an Ashram on the banks of Sabarmati river in Gujarat" said Vinoba Bhave , while concluding his fiftieth talk on Gita. Perhaps these were the apt words in which a disciple could pay tribute to his master. Acharya Vinoba Bhave is not known for wasting words ...
