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Acharya Vinoba Bhave, ending his year-long silence, extolled the merits of self-discipline and deprecated the resort to satyagraha as a means of solving the country’s problems. In a 40-minute speech, punctuated with cheers from a crowd of about 15,000, Bhave said solutions to problems through self-discipline would ensure a social order based on peace and mutual respect.

Since the government was responsive to self-discipline, there was no need for satyagraha. Bhave expressed his hope that the Bhoodan movement, celebrating its silver jubilee, would grow and succeed and provide a livelihood to the landless millions.

The prime minister expressed the hope that the voice of Acharya Vinoba Bhave would be heard for long years to come. In a message, Indira Gandhi hailed Bhave’s work in molding satyagraha into an instrument of positive social change: “At the time of the individual satyagraha in 1940, Mahatma Gandhi acclaimed Acharya Vinoba Bhave as his principal spiritual disciple. Vinobaji has carried forward the message of satyagraha and shown that it is not merely a form of negative political protest but an instrument of positive social change. Through Bhoodan, he has demonstrated that love of justice and energy of spirit can be utilized to basic changes in rural economic and social relationships.”