गाँधी और कबीर – Gandhi and Kabir oppose power through love

 

ajab shahar – kabir project

The conviction that love is as powerful as knowledge is a revolutionary conception of Kabir, where love is presented as a challenge to knowledge, or to power in the guise of knowledge. … Gandhi, like Kabir, was trying to subvert the discourse of power which believed that change can come only through physical strength and weapons. Gandhi was proposing instead that change could come through the power of love. This was a political act. I would like to call it the ‘politics of love

This reflection is excerpted from a longer talk given by Apoorvanand as part of a Refresher Course on Indian Psychology organised in 2010 by the Department of Psychology, Delhi University, and coordinated by Suneet Varma.

(Click on Settings for subtitles in English)

This is one of a series of uploads for Ajab Shahar, an upcoming webspace featuring songs, images and conversations around bhakti, sufi and baul poetry from India and thereabouts, currently under construction by the Kabir Project team. http://www.ajabshahar.org, http://www.kabirproject.org

English Translation: Prashant Parvatneni and Vipul Rikhi

Video Credits:
Camera: Kalpana Tanwar
Editing: Yashaswini Raghunandan
Subtitling: Prashant Parvatneni
Collection: Kabir Project

Date of Recording: 2010
Place: New Delhi

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