Immortal Sarvoday

Contents: List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. I. Mahatma Gandhi: 1. Mahatma Gahi: His holiness the Dalai Lama. 2. Human element in Gandhian economics/Baidyanath Mishra. 3. Contemporary socialism in India: the relevance of Gandhian thought/Narayan Hazary. 4. Tilak, Gandhi and Aurobindo/Sarat Kumar Dora. 5. Gandhian contribution to modernisation/Sanghamitra Buddhapriya. 6. Gandhi, Tagore and new ethics of Argumentation/Ananta Kumar Giri. II. Vinoba Bhave: 7. Vinoba Bhave/Mahatma Gandhi. 8. The great expositor of Gandhi/Manmohan Choudhury. 9. Vinoba and Sarvoday/Ratan Das. 10. Gandhi and Vinoba/Surya Kanta Das. 11. On the foot-steps of Bapu/Benudhar Pradhan. 12. Vinoba and communism/Shyam Sundar Acharya. 13. Vinoba and democracy/Amarendra Mahanty. 14. India's poverty and vinoba's moral approach to development/Sudhakar Panda, Prashant Chandra Panda. 15. Gandhi-Vinoba harmony/Bijoyini Mahanty. 16. Vinoba and Sarvoday/Brahmananda Satapathy. 17. Vinoba and Bhoodan movement/Jyotimati Samantray. 18. Vinoba: Deva Nagari script and regional languages/Gopal Krishna Shrichandan. III. Jayaprakash Narayan: 19. Perspective and insights on Sarvoday: contributions of Gandhi, Vinoba and Jay Prakash/Dambarudhar Pattnaik. 20. Jayaprakash Narayan and his political ideas: a study in the 'Shifts' of his position from Marxism to total revolution/Jyoti Bikas Nath, M. Yasin and Pradeep Kumar Sengupta.

"London Times' observed, "No country other than India, no religion other than Hinduism could have produced a Gandhi." Nobel laureate Dalai Lama says, "If the twentieth century is taken as one of the Asian liberation, Mahatma Gandhi stands out as a beacon of inspiration". His non-violence depended on the power of truth and justice, through which he won India's independence. Although violence is still rife, the trend of world public opinion is that, the future lies in non-violent ways of conflict resolution. Gandhi's economic development is inclusive of not only material prosperity but also moral and spiritual prosperity. He believed in the doctrine of Sarvoday or Universal welfare. He had faith in the divinity of human nature. To him the driving force of modern civilisation is hunger for wealth and pursuit of worldly pleasure. Modern economic development relies heavily on industrialisation and urbanisation to increase the pace of economic growth. Industrialisation emphasizes consumerism which drowns millions of human beings into a flood of materialistic lust, It is this lust, which has made millions that slave of a few, who control economic and political power. He said, "The idea of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems a delusion and a snare". Man's physical and intellectual voluptuousness must stop. He observed, "The earth provides enough to satisfy everyone's needs but not for everybody's greed". Sound ecology is sound economics. Capitalism and market economy creates unemployment, and unequal distribution of income. The malady from this was village republic. He wanted economically self-sufficient and politically self-governing villages. The cities have cooperated with the bleeding process that has gone on since the second half of eighteenth century. Sarvoday is the alterative to capitalism and Marxism. Gandhi Shaped Vinoba. Vinoba's Sarvoday believed that individual ownership of both land and property gives birth to exploitation land must go to the tiller. He was opposed to property, state and government. He stood for partyless, stateless, and classless society. He believed that all the ills of the society sprang from man giving up manual work." (jacket)