These lectures of Shri Vinoba Bhave have been collected and rendered into English with a view to introducing Shri Vinobas precious thoughts on some issues affecting human destiny to a class of readers to whom his discourses are not accessible in the original. They are addresses to the common village folk. Only seldom are they meant for urban intellectuals.Nevertheless, by virtue of his incomparable capacity for expressing subtle thoughts in a language with which the common folks are familiar, Shri Vinoba has succeeded in educating millions of Indian villagers.