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She had no interest in publicity, nor being photographed or interviewed, which is one major reason she is not more widely known, and she only reluctantly agreed to my request to interview her. Yes, we are dealing with the crux of the issue here.
Hitting the nail on the head! She spent a year meditating in a cave at the age of nineteen; she experimented with spiritual practices, visited ashrams, and also was invariably turned away by the Hindu authorities wherever she went, for the one simple reason that she was a woman.

— Spirituality and Social Action

The challenge awaiting us is to go much deeper as human beings, 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. And in many places, man and woman live together.

Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism have no answer, because they have not faced this, in this
way. We will give everything to work hard, selflessly. In India, the Hindu religion says woman is always to be protected—in childhood by the father, in young age by the husband, and in old age by her son. I’ve
met male teachers, such as J Krishnamurti and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

The recognition of all this
[within us] has to precede going beyond it.

Vimala was an emancipated woman.

When the spiritual history of the world is ever written, from the vantage point of the future, she certainly deserves an entry as a pioneer in translating and transmitting the wisdom of the East to the West in plain non-esoteric language. Not even one…What are you waiting for?”

So she gave up the social activism of the Land Gift movement to travel the world as an independent spiritual teacher, giving talks and holding meditation and inquiry camps.

In an open letter to her former colleagues she wrote,

“My association with the movement is over….

Perhaps if the women recognized
the resistance at the subconscious level, it might disappear, it might dissolve.

MA: I think some of us are just beginning to recognize that. She has been the wife, the mother, the sister, protected by others, especially by men. Total revolution, inner and outer, was her call. If she behaves, if she follows bhakti yoga, then she may be
born again in a male body, and then she will be liberated.

At the depth of our being there is fear because of our
physical vulnerability, because of our secondary role in human civilization. She said: “the day I stop learning I will stop speaking.”

Vimala Thakar was born in India and spent her childhood amidst the deeply spiritual atmosphere of her family and their friends.

Her total dedication to the search for ever deeper and subtler truths began at the very early age of five, and has never stopped. The sense of oneness is no longer an intellectual connection. It’s in the blood. As soon as there is awareness of wholeness, every moment becomes sacred, every movement is sacred.