Vimala thakar krishnamurti biography
Vimala Thakar was an Indian social activist and spiritual teacher.!
Vimala Thakar, a philosopher, social activist and mystic, and a very independent Indian woman sensed the new potential of human coexistence by turning inwards.
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 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.[1] 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.
A woman lived in Mt. Abu who had become enlightened through J. Krishnamurti and that she was available for visitors.Through the 1950s, several million acres of farmland were so redistributed.[2] 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 dedicat