Daily Inspiration Quote by Vinoba Bhave

Certainty gets demoted to aspiration in Vinoba Bhave's line, and that demotion is the point. By stacking "chance and change and mutability", he builds a world that refuses to sit still long enough for human plans to harden into destiny. The rhythm matters: the triple cadence mimics the rolling unpredictability he's naming, like weather systems, not moral equations. Resolve, in this framing, isn't a lever that reliably moves history; it's a posture you take while standing on shifting ground.

The pivot comes with "depends on the will of the Lord", which can read like resignation but works more like disciplined humility. Bhave, a Gandhian educator and social reformer, spent his life translating spiritual commitments into concrete social experiments (most famously the Bhoodan land-gift movement). He knew how fragile reform is: dependent on the moods of landlords, the stamina of volunteers, the violence of the state, the appetite of crowds, the accidents of timing. Invoking God is a way to acknowledge contingency without collapsing into cynicism. It also quietly rebukes ego. If outcomes belong to God, then the reformer is freed to focus on integrity of action rather than the vanity of results.

There's subtextual strategy here, too. In a newly independent India tempted by technocratic certainty and ideological swagger, Bhave offers a counter-ethic: act decisively, but hold your victory lightly. Faith becomes an instrument of noncoercion, a moral brake on the impulse to force history to comply. The line isn't anti-agency; it's anti-hubris.