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| - | These verses are from Sant Kabir, a 13th century Indian mystic poet and saint who hundreds of years ago questioned organised forms of religions, their internal injustices of caste, hierarchies, fundamentalism, absolutism, was a weaver by practice. In this verse above, Kabir gives the human body a metaphor of fabric that has been woven fine and imbued in divine’s name. Again, the movement of Warp and Weft in weaving is used as a metaphor for the process of growing in the womb for 9 months. And then, when the fabric is woven, is a form of a human body it is imbued in the colour red which is a colour of divinity. | + | These verses are from Sant Kabir, a 13th century Indian mystic poet and saint who hundreds of years ago questioned organised forms of religions, their internal injustices of caste, hierarchies, fundamentalism, absolutism. He was a weaver by practice. In this verse above, Kabir gives the human body a metaphor of fabric that has been woven fine and imbued in divine’s name. Again, the movement of Warp and Weft in weaving is used as a metaphor for the process of growing in the womb for 9 months. And then, when the fabric is woven, is a form of a human body it is imbued in the colour red which is a colour of divinity. |
| [{{:newsletters:13:laf2.jpg?nolink&300 |Among the Dimasa community in Assam, North-east India, weaving among women is an essential expression of their way of life. Several of the motifs are inspired by nature. Picture Credits: Shrishtee Bajpai}}] Sant Kabir used weaving, his occupation along with thousands others in his community and elsewhere, as a metaphor. It was used very often to speak of spiritual, political, and social issues. The working class in India, including weavers, craftsmen, cobblers, ironsmiths (often from marginalised and oppressed castes) related to this democratisation of knowledge.(([[https://amitbasole.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/basole_caravan_review.pdf]])) Local communities who didn’t have access to elite knowledge spaces articulated their worldviews through their everyday occupations. Their expression of meaning of life was not based on any abstractism; rather, it was woven in everyday practice and learning. Several of these communities have led counter spiritual, political and social movements in India over the ages.((Bhakti Republic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxX9-Zy37KM]])) | [{{:newsletters:13:laf2.jpg?nolink&300 |Among the Dimasa community in Assam, North-east India, weaving among women is an essential expression of their way of life. Several of the motifs are inspired by nature. Picture Credits: Shrishtee Bajpai}}] Sant Kabir used weaving, his occupation along with thousands others in his community and elsewhere, as a metaphor. It was used very often to speak of spiritual, political, and social issues. The working class in India, including weavers, craftsmen, cobblers, ironsmiths (often from marginalised and oppressed castes) related to this democratisation of knowledge.(([[https://amitbasole.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/basole_caravan_review.pdf]])) Local communities who didn’t have access to elite knowledge spaces articulated their worldviews through their everyday occupations. Their expression of meaning of life was not based on any abstractism; rather, it was woven in everyday practice and learning. Several of these communities have led counter spiritual, political and social movements in India over the ages.((Bhakti Republic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxX9-Zy37KM]])) | ||