Re: Vimala Thakar who passed March 11, three excepts follow, and then the full treatise:
[As the Mehta's wonderful guest, the nobel Peace Prize Nominee spoke of Vinoba Bhave and the Land-gift Movement, this person below's life also included direct years long involvement with Vinoba Bhave]
1) ***As a result of this meeting [with Krishnamurti], she ultimately felt compelled to give up her work with the Land-gift Movement.
2) ***She wrote an open letter to her colleagues and friends in the Land-gift Movement to explain why she had left: "No words could describe the intensity and depth of the experience through which I am passing. Everything is changed. I am born anew. This is neither wishful thinking nor is it a sentimental reaction to the healing. It is an astounding phenomenon. . . . Everything that has been transmitted to our mind through centuries will have to be discarded. . . . I have dealt with it. It has dropped away."
3) ***Vimala went to meet Krishnamurti in Benares in December 1961. He asked her what she had been doing and she told him that she spent most of her time speaking with friends who were interested in her life.
"That is quite natural," he replied. "But why don't you explode? Why don't you put bombs under all these old people who follow the wrong line? Why don't you go around India? Is anyone doing this? If there were half a dozen, I would not say a word to you. There is none. . . . There is so much to do. There is no time.. . . . Go—shout from the house tops, 'You are on the wrong track! This is not the way to peace!'. . . Go out and set them on fire! There is none who is doing this. Not even one. . . . What are you waiting for?"
On Mar 31, 2009 david dunlop / heartists wrote :
Re: Vimala Thakar who passed March 11, three excepts follow, and then the full treatise:
[As the Mehta's wonderful guest, the nobel Peace Prize Nominee spoke of Vinoba Bhave and the Land-gift Movement, this person below's life also included direct years long involvement with Vinoba Bhave]
1) ***As a result of this meeting [with Krishnamurti], she ultimately felt compelled to give up her work with the Land-gift Movement.
2) ***She wrote an open letter to her colleagues and friends in the Land-gift Movement to explain why she had left: "No words could describe the intensity and depth of the experience through which I am passing. Everything is changed. I am born anew. This is neither wishful thinking nor is it a sentimental reaction to the healing. It is an astounding phenomenon. . . . Everything that has been transmitted to our mind through centuries will have to be discarded. . . . I have dealt with it. It has dropped away."
3) ***Vimala went to meet Krishnamurti in Benares in December 1961. He asked her what she had been doing and she told him that she spent most of her time speaking with friends who were interested in her life.
"That is quite natural," he replied. "But why don't you explode? Why don't you put bombs under all these old people who follow the wrong line? Why don't you go around India? Is anyone doing this? If there were half a dozen, I would not say a word to you. There is none. . . . There is so much to do. There is no time.. . . . Go—shout from the house tops, 'You are on the wrong track! This is not the way to peace!'. . . Go out and set them on fire! There is none who is doing this. Not even one. . . . What are you waiting for?"
THE PASSING OF A SAGE, the full eulogy:
http://pictureofday.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/vimala-thakar/
http://www.gandhitopia.org/group/mgnd/forum/topics/vimla-thakar-the-great-lover
Full article here.