Vimala Thakar
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Biography
Vimala Thakar is an Indian social activist and spiritual teacher. She was born into a middle-class Brahmin family in central India and was interested in spiritual matters from an early age. She pursued this interest with meditation and spiritual practices through her youth.
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 millions of acres of farmland were so redistributed.
In 1960, Thakar attended talks given by Jiddu Krishnamurti and met with him. This meeting was to change her life. She dedicated herself to teaching meditation and philosophy. For the next two decades, she traveled between India, the U.S. and Europe, teaching and giving talks on spirituality. After 1979, she curtailed her travel outside India, and her teachings emphasize balancing 'inner' spiritual development with 'outer' social development.
She lives at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India.
Locations
Thakar no longer travels outside India but remains busy seeing individuals or groups who make their way to visit her at her home in Rajasthan or in Ahmedabad where she stays during the winter. Here she meets with people from all over the world.
Mount Abu, Rajasthan 307 501, India
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Books, Audio & Video

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Glimpses of Raja Yoga: An Introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (Yoga Wisdom Classics)
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