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Jai Jagat! Victory to the Whole World!
Vinoba Bhave joined Gandhi when he was very young, about seventeen, while Gandhiji was already shaking India’s consciousness with his writings, speeches and actions.
Many, at that time, left their villages to join the revolution. Young Vinoba was one of them and he was acknowledged by Gandhi for the purity of his heart and his extraordinary spiritual strength.
He became the closest friend and advisor of Mahatma Gandhi, whom choose him as the first individual satyagrahi. After Gandhi was assasinated, in 1948, he led the Sarvodaya movement towards the 'constructive programme' of Gandhi till his death in 1982.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave walked on foot, from village to village in India, for seventeen years, collecting huge donations of land from the landlords and redistributed it among the landless, for selfsufficiency and freedom from slavery and hunger through an outstanding constructive revolution: the Boodan and Gramdan movement.
Not many, in the west, know about Vinoba and his outstanding contributions to humanity, but on the web you can find pages on him, on boodan and gramdan... and more will come on Jai Jagat.

The dream of Vinoba was about a world without geopolitical boundaries, no religious divisions, no separations among all human beings, all equal in the Love of the same God.
He had a vision of the world as one village, where all humans would live as a family, with Love, Truth and Compassion inspiring their relationships.
He promoted the decentralization of power to the villages {gramswaraj}
In his Ashrams all important decisions were taken unanimously.
One World consciousness pioneer he had a vision of the fall of all nationalisms and the fusion of humanity in one nation, the planet and one citizenship, humanity.

In 1957, the first of November, he was greeted at at huge gathering of the Sarvodaya movement by the crowd shouting.. Jai Bharat! Jai Bharat! Which means Hail India, Victory to India!, slogan that was very common in post-independence time.
In that occasion Vinoba told the crowd that, from that moment on, they should have greeted him and each other with “Jai Jagat!” victory to the whole world, victory to all.

On the 11th September 1994, at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi, with the partecipation of the President of India and Ministers of the Indian Government, it has been inaugurated a 1994/1997 programme named 'Jai Jagat Mahotsav' for celebrating:
-the birth centenary of Acharya Vinoba Bhave
-the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi
-the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence