News:Guru Ravidas Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Sant Ravidas is being celebrated across the country on February 9th,2020.
Facts:
About Guru Ravidas:
- Guru Ravidas was a 14th century saint and reformer of the Bhakti movement in North India.
- He was born as a member of an untouchable leather-working Chamar caste.
- He gained prominence due to his belief in one God and his unbiased religious poems.
- He advocated for the removal of social divisions of caste and gender and promoted unity in the pursuit of personal spiritual freedoms.
- The famous saint poetess,Mirabai was a disciple of Guru Ravidas.
- Around 41 poems of Guru Ravidas were included in ‘Guru Granth Sahib’, the religious text of the Sikhs.
