Vinoba Bhave Jayanti 2022
Vinayak Narhari Bhave, popularly known as Acharya Vinoba Bhave was a great freedom fighter, an eminent social reformer, a staunch follower of Gandhian principles and ideals and a great human rights activist. He was born on September 11, 1895 AD at Gogoda in Kolaba district of Maharashtra. His father was Narhari Shambhu Bhave who was a textile engineer in Baroda (now Vadodara). He took keen interest in the works and philosophy of saints and poets of Maharashtra and studied many books at an early age. He also read many books in Sanskrit. These readings largely shaped the philosophical and ideological structure of his mind. Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy and principles immensely inspired him. He met Gandhiji in 1916 and became his disciple. He started living at Gandhiji’s ashram to imbibe his principles and ideals in reality. He gave his support and contributions to the Khadi movement and other reformative missions of Mahatma Gandhi at the ashram. He launched ‘Maharashtra Dharma’, a mon...