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Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba" Bhave ( pronunciation (help·info); 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982) was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Sanskrit for teacher), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mohandas Gandhi. He was the 1st person to be selected as a Satyagrahi followed by Jawaharlal Nehru in Individual Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi.

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When we will all see our role in society as servants, we will all light up the sky together like countless stars on a dark night. Don’t think of society as the sky on a full moon night. The moon’s harsh light blinds us to the true and humble work of the stars. But on a moonless night, the true servants shine forth, as though they are connected invisibly in this vast and infinite cosmos.

Dark, Harsh, Humble, Stars, True

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

Bhagavad, Elaborate, Long, Meant, Men, Practice

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Joyous, Order, Should, Wish

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

Bhakti, Doe, Karma, Mean, Mere

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

Argument, Arguments, Needs, Substantiate, Use

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Good, Speedily, Steam, Vigor, Want

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

Contact, Convinced, Cutting, Desire, Tree

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Activities, Heart, Hearts, Purpose, Sole, Spiritual

Politics And Religion Are Obsolete, The Time Has Come For Science And Spirituality

Come, Obsolete, Religion And Politics, Spirituality, Time

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Action, Life, Life Is, Play, Repeated

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

Book, Conclude, Infer, Intelligent, Men

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

Down, Movement, Natural, Soul, Weight

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Hiking, Journey, Same, Steps, Thinking, Walking

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

God, Place, Simple, Skills, Subtle, Universe

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Allow, Imagine, Power, Revolutionary, Thinking

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

Action, Actions, Come, Counting, Ends, Should

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Action, Childhood, Infancy Is, Like, Slate

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Feet, Fetters, Joy, Miserable, Snap, Soul

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

Fight, Fighting, War, Wars, Weapons

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Freedom, Rivers, Sweet, Two, Wasted

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