Women's Power

by Acharya Vinoba Bhave

This edition of  ‘Women’s Power’ which includes the most recent ideas of Acharya Vinoba Bhave on this subject. Vinobaji has great faith in the power of women. He is against any discrimination between the status of man and woman. In this age of science it should be considered absolutely unreasonable to keep women enclosed in the four walls of the home. Vinobaji insists on this fact that India ca advance only when some women ‘Sannyasis’ come forward who are as detached and as ascetic as Shankaracharya was and have more women imbued with ‘Brahma Vidya’, the spiritual knowledge.

This whole book is replete with new and pungent ideas. Any one going through them will feel inspired. It is a matter of pleasure that we are publishing this book when whole world is celebrating Women’s Year in pursuance of the call of the U.N.O. We hope that the revolutionary ideas certainly help in awakening women’s power not only in India, but also in other countries of the World.

About the Author:

Vinoba Bhave was one of the great spiritual leaders and social reformers of modern India, whose work and personal example moved the heart of all Indians, from Prime Ministers to the poor. Born in 1895, at the age of ten he took a vow of lifelong celibacy and service to others. Searching for a way of life that would embody both spiritual truth and practical action, he discovered Gandhi and joined in his work for the regeneration of India.

Vinoba participated in Gandhi’s non-violent resistance (satyagraha) to the British Raj. Later, after independence had been achieved, Vinoba started out on his extraordinary bhoodan (Land Gift) movement. Over a period of twenty years, Vinoba walked the length and breath of India, persuading landlords to give to their poor neighbors a total of over four million aces of land.

Vinoba’s social activism was founded on a lifetime’s study of the spiritual traditions of India, and also of the other major world religions. These memories reveal both the inner and outer life of a great man who has an unwavering commitment to the practice of non-violence, to an engaged spirituality, and to the power of love.