Raidas
Author
1377 – 1528
Who was Raidas?
Guru Ravidass Ji was a North Indian Guru mystic of the bhakti movement who was active in the 15th century CE. Venerated in the region of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh as well as Maharashtra, his devotional songs and verses made a lasting impact upon the bhakti movement. He is often given the honorific Bhagat or Sant. He was a socio-religious reformer, a thinker, a theosophist, a humanist, a poet, a traveler, a pacifist and a spiritual figure before whom even head-priests of Varanasi lay prostrate to pay homage.
Guru Ravidass Ji was born in the Kutbandhla Chamar caste. His devotional songs were included in the Sikh Scriptures, Guru Granth Sahib. There is also a larger body of hymns passed on independently that is claimed and attributed to Guru Ravidass Ji. Guru Ravidass was subversive in that his devotionalism implied a leveling of the social divisions of caste and gender, yet ecumenical in that it tended to promote crossing of sectarian divides in the name of a higher spiritual unity.
Guru Raviass Ji taught that one is distinguished not by one's caste but by one's actions and that every person has the right to worship God and read holy texts.
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- Born
- Jan 15, 1377
Varanasi - Also known as
- Bhagat Ravidass
- Guru Ravidass
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Ethnicity
- Dalit
- Nationality
- India
- Lived in
- Varanasi
- Died
- 1528
Varanasi
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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