Resistance, Resilience and Rehabilitation After Societal Trauma: A Psycho-Textual Perspective of Kabir Vani

The study examines Kabir Vani as psycho-textual discourse that engages resistance, resilience and rehabilitation in the aftermath of societal trauma. Kabir’s poetic expression originated from a socio-historical setting marked by social exclusion, caste discrimination and religious sectarianism, offering a rigorous critique of societal structures that breed identity fragmentation and psychological suffering. The study is informed by trauma theory, identity studies and psycho-textual analysis in exploring how Kabir articulates the experience of the marginalized self and the possibility of transformative pathways toward healing and self-reconstruction. This paper argues that social trauma produces not only external forms of oppression but also internal feelings of alienation, inferiority, and dislocation. To such conditions, Kabir’s response is a denial of caste hierarchies, ritualism and institutionalized religious divisions that fragment human identity. Kabir’s poetic discourse functions as a mechanism of psychosocial resistance and rehabilitation. His vision transcends sectarian and social barriers and promotes resilience through self-realization, ethical consciousness and communal harmony, demanding the reconfiguration of a unified and coherent subjectivity capable of confronting inner turmoil and oppressive social structures. The findings of the study reflect that the text of Kabir Vani provides a framework for dealing with trauma and proposes a path to healing that integrates spiritual discourse with social critique.