Ahimsa Conversations with Rajni Bakshi
Ahimsa : did not die with Gandhi - It is Living today. The evidence is that despite all the issues Ahimsa is dominant. - Rajni Bakshi on Ahimsa Conversations in संगठन संदेश - Sangathan Sandesh https://www.facebook.com/incsandesh/videos/547874836910939/
Peace activist David Swanson explains how it takes a long, concerted and diligent effort to avoid peace and make war. David draws attention to the conflict in Ukraine where nonviolent resistance is manifest as people are kneeling or standing before tanks, feeding soldiers and talking them out of fighting. David also addresses how to locate this spontaneous activism in the larger frame of the human will for power.
The notion that war is normal and we have to struggle for peace is a fundamental lie. David Swanson is one of the co-founders of the global network, World Beyond War,
https://youtu.be/SwlOiiqDhpg Snippets: 6.39 mins
Full conversation: https://youtu.be/WZHIBiN5P3I 34 mins.
Is violence more natural than nonviolence? http://youtube.com/embed/7H4cw3N1364?start=17&end=117
What is ahimsa? http://youtube.com/embed/7H4cw3N1364?start=118&end=274
How are ahimsa, justice and politics related? http://youtube.com/embed/7H4cw3N1364?start=275&end=356
Why is ahimsa not a mere tactic for protestors? http://youtube.com/embed/7H4cw3N1364?start=357&end=487
Ahimsa and Justice: http://youtube.com/embed/7H4cw3N1364?start=487&end=605 08:07-10.07
Can Ahimsa help to shape the present and future? http://youtube.com/embed/7H4cw3N1364?start=606&end=745
Ahimsa Conversations Live # 1 : Second Anniversary
Ahimsa Conversations Montage # 2
Man's basic aspiration is to be empty of violence. Our Core Nature is Ahimsa. It is full of Karuna (compassion)
and Comradeship. All the violent ways, and violence generating destructive tendencies are delussions.. And they are caused by causes and conditions which are essentially external influences. They are not our basic nature. That is why, to keep our hearts, and our minds in its natural state, would be to maintain Ahimsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTVCSOnwiak 57 mins
Eighty-five-year-old Mr. Rao, who was born in Bangalore, joined the Quit India Movement when he was 13 and went on to dedicate his life to Gandhian ideals. He has been associated with several organisations including the Student Congress and the Rashtra Seva Dal.
Cultivating physical strength, finding joy in physical labor and being fearless are some of the key qualities for nonviolence. Subba Rao has learnt this over 70 years of holding youth camps on Gandhian ideals of truth and nonviolence, in every state of India and abroad. He has conducted 37 camps in the USA over that many years. Here ‘Bhaiji’, as he is better known, shares reflections on this work including his key role in the surrender of dacoits in the Chambal Valley in the 1950s. There are alternatives to the gun but it is weapons and organized violence that get large volumes of investment whereas nonviolence attracts a fraction of spending. What advocates of nonviolence can build upon is that people across the world are fed up of violence. Thus one day the world will accept that love is the alternative to the gun.
Snippets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTVCSOnwiak 6.19 Min