About 

• • Saint Ravidas, also known as Guru Ravidas or Bhagat Ravidas, was a revered saint, poet, and social reformer in the Bhakti movement.
  • Born in the late 14th century in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Guru Ravidas belonged to a family of leatherworkers, traditionally regarded as a lower caste.
  • Ravidas emphasized the importance of devotion (bhakti) to God and believed in the equality of all human beings, irrespective of caste or social status.
  • He played a pivotal role in preaching social harmony and stood against caste discrimination and social injustice. 
  • His teachings focused on the concept of one formless, attributeless divine reality. 
  • He rejected ritualism and external markers of caste and social hierarchy.
  • Ravidas’ devotional songs were included in the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikhism’s holy book.
  • One of his famous disciples was the saint Mirabai.

• Mirabai was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna.

• Among Ravidas’s moral and intellectual achievements was the conceptualization of “Begampura”, a city that was free from caste, class and sorrow.