Vimala Thakar (born 15 April 1921 Ramnavmi day at Bilaspur and died on 11 March 2009 at Falgun Poornima at Mt.
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.
This program, led by Vinoba Bhave, persuaded landlords to give land to poor farmers.
She left the Land-Gift movement to dedicate herself to what she called "the internal problem"—the spiritual liberation of the individual.
The challenge awaiting us is to go much deeper as human beings, to abandon superficial prejudices and preferences, to expand understanding to a global scale, integrating the totality of living, and to become aware of the wholeness of which we are a manifestation.”[6] She has also pointed out that intense self-education and transformation are naturally, in themselves, valid and very significant forms of social action.