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(c) Organisation - Practice of direct works like farming of cotton, spinning, production of cloth have been accepted by the Bhūdāna Yajña. The Bhūdāna Yajña also instructs that one should pay services to parent, teacher (Guru), neighbors etc. so that socialloan may be discovered. Steps of Bhūdāna Yajña
According to Vinoba Bhava there are five steps or stages of Bhūdāna Yajña.
i) Suppression of Disquietude (Aśānti Damana) ii) Attention Attracted (Dhyānākarşaņa) iii) Creation of Faith (Nisthā Nirmāņa) iv) Land Offering on large scale (Vyāpaka Bhūmi Dāna) v) Land Revolution (Bhūmi Krānti)
i) Suppression of Disquietude - When there was a clash between poor people and landowners of Telangana, Bhüdāna Yajña was begun there and that resulted into the control of that situation. People were influenced by Bhūdāna Yajña. That was its fast step which was named as Suppression of Disquietude.
ii) Attention Attracted - In the fearful clash of Telangana so many persons were killed. In that situation of violence the beginning of Bhūdāna Yajña a symbol of non-violence was really a wonderful thing. And when Vinoba Bhave was marching towards Delhi he saw the improving process of Bhūdāna Yajña at different places. That development of Bhūdāna Yajña influenced the whole country. Thus the second stage was called as “Attention Attracted”.
iii) Creation of faith - After that it was felt essential to creat faith in the hearts of the persons related with Bhūdāna Yajña, so that they might participate with full confidence in that. So in the Sarvodaya conference held at Sevapuri it was decided to get 25 Lacs acres of land in the whole country and 5 Lacs acres of land in U.P. as dāna. Both of plannings came to be successful which caused confidence in the workers of Bhūdāna Yajña.
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