Vinoba bhave drishti ias

He was an eminent philosopher. Vinayak Narahari Bhave was born on 11 September in a small village called Gagoji present-day Gagode Budruk in Kolaba in the Konkan region of what is now Maharashtra. The couple had five children; four sons named Vinayaka affectionately called Vinya , Balakrishna, Shivaji and Dattatreya, and one daughter. His father was a trained weaver with a modern rationalist outlook and worked in Baroda.

Vinayaka was brought up by his grandfather, Shamburao Bhave and was greatly influenced by his mother Rukmini Devi, a religious woman from Karnataka.

Sarvoday sambandhi vinoba bhave ke vicharon ko likhiye

Vinayaka was highly inspired after reading the Bhagavad Gita , at a very young age. A report in the newspapers about Gandhi's speech at the newly founded Banaras Hindu University attracted Bhave's attention. In , after reading a newspaper piece by Mahatma Gandhi , Bhave threw his school and college certificates into a fire on his way to Bombay to appear for the intermediate examination.

He wrote a letter to Gandhi and after an exchange of letters, Gandhi advised Bhave to come for a personal meeting at Kochrab Ashram in Ahmedabad. Bhave met Gandhi on 7 June and subsequently abandoned his studies. Bhave participated with a keen interest in the activities at Gandhi's ashram , like teaching, studying, spinning and improving the lives of the community.

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His involvement with Gandhi's constructive programmes related to Khadi , village industries, new education Nai Talim , sanitation and hygiene also kept on increasing. Bhave went to Wardha on 8 April to take charge of the Ashram as desired by Gandhi. In , he brought out Maharashtra Dharma , a Marathi monthly which had his essays on the Upanishads. Later on, this monthly became a weekly and continued for three years.

In , Gandhi sent him to Vaikom , Kerala to supervise the entry of the Harijans to the temple.