Vimal Research Society for Agro-Biotech & Cosmic Powers (VIRSACO) was established in 1997 under the guidance of Sri Vimala Thakar to synthesize science and spirituality. VIMALA THAKAR (1921 – 2009) was no ordinary teacher; great Indian visionary, philosopher, grassroots activist, and mystic. She herself would say she wasn't a teacher at all, but a friend who came to share her perception of life as she understood it with whoever wished to be present.
Blessings from Vimalaji
Vimal Research Society draws its inspiration from Vimala Thakar. For those unfamiliar with Vimalaji's work and teachings, we've included an excerpt from Dr. Barbara Pennington's introduction to “Vimalaji's Global Pilgrimage”.
Vimala Thakar lights world like the innocent first rays of the dawn, gently awakening a new day for humanity. She has quietly spread the gentle light of profound spiritual intelligence and pristine clarity in many shadowed lands where confusion darkens human consciousness. As the sun freely and directly offers warmth of spiritual dogmas; Vimalaji freely offers the warmth unencumbered by dogmas and the authority of traditional relationships.
Vimala Thakar is an extraordinary presence in the world today. She is a serious revolutionary in both spirituality and social action, transforming not through hatred and violence but through love and compassion. Although deeply committed to social action, she builds no organizations or ideologies.
Vimala is a person who loves to penetrate the depths of life and living, to personally discover the truth and meaning of existence. She believes we must move beyond the traditional, making changes at the very roots, and using love and compassion—not hatred and violence—as the means to positive change. Violence, she is convinced, inevitably breeds more violence and can never lead to true peace. The phantom peace we pursue globally is difficult to realize, she feels, because there is no peace in human hearts and minds.
To the communes of young people in the Rainbow district of Australia, to the violence-torn areas of Gujarat and Punjab, to a United Nations session in Chile, and to a meeting with oppressed people in Poland, she brings the light of optimism. Though darkness lies heavily upon the earth and violence and chaos spread like unchecked fires, 'human beings,' she declares, 'are not doomed to destruction and despair.' 'There is,' she insists, 'the potential within each human being to be free—to grow into maturity, sanity, and wholeness, and to discover truth and abiding peace.'"