Vimala Thakar, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian social activist and spiritual teacher
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About Vimala Thakar
- Vimala Thakar (born 15 April 1921 Ramnavmi day at Bilaspur and died on 11 March 2009 at Falgun Poornima at Mt.
- Abu) was an Indian social activist and spiritual teacher.
- Born into a middle-class Brahmin family living at Akola city in Maharashtra state in India, she was interested in spiritual matters from an early age.
- She pursued this interest with meditation and spiritual practices throughout her youth.
- She post graduated in Eastern and Western philosophy, Dr.
- Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was one of her professors. Later she became active in the Bhoodan (Land Gift) Program.
- This program, led by Vinoba Bhave, persuaded landlords to give land to poor farmers.
- Through the 1950s, several million acres of farmland were so redistributed.
- She travelled India to its length and breadth. In 1958, Thakar attended talks given by, and met with, the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
- This meeting was to change her life.
- She left the Land-Gift movement to dedicate herself to what she called "the internal problem"--the spiritual liberation of the individual.
- She dedicated herself to teaching meditation and philosophy, traveling between India, the U.S.
- and Europe.
- In 1979, she rekindled her passion for social activism, traveling through India and founding centers to educate villagers in agro-centered industries, sanitation, local self-government, and active democratic citizenship.
- Her teachings came to emphasize balancing 'inner' spiritual development with 'outer' social development, an evolution reflected in her 1984 book "Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach." After 1991, she curtailed her travel outside India. She died on 11 March 2009, on the day of Holi, the festival of colour in India.
- She was living at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India during her last years.
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