Guru Ravidas Jayanti - | History | Download Images, Quotes, Pictures, Wishes, and Status

Guru‌ ‌Ravidas‌ life

Ravidas‌ ‌was‌ ‌born‌ ‌in‌ ‌1450‌ ‌was‌ ‌a‌ ‌mystic‌ ‌poet-saint‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bhakti‌ ‌movement‌ ‌during‌ ‌the‌ ‌15th‌ ‌to‌ ‌16th‌ ‌century.‌ ‌Regarded‌ ‌as‌ ‌a‌ ‌teacher‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌regions‌ ‌like‌ ‌Punjab,‌ ‌Rajasthan,‌ ‌Maharashtra,‌ ‌Uttar‌ ‌Pradesh‌ ‌and‌ ‌Madhya‌ ‌Pradesh,‌ ‌the‌ ‌devotional‌ ‌songs‌ ‌of‌ ‌Ravidas‌ ‌have‌ ‌had‌ ‌an‌ ‌enduring‌ ‌impact‌ ‌upon‌ ‌the‌ ‌bhakti‌ ‌movement.‌

He‌ ‌was‌ ‌also‌ ‌known‌ ‌as‌ ‌a‌ ‌poet-saint,‌ ‌social‌ ‌reformer‌ ‌and‌ ‌a‌ ‌spiritual‌ ‌figure.‌ ‌He‌ ‌was‌ ‌born‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌family‌ ‌that‌ ‌worked‌ ‌with‌ ‌dead‌ ‌animals‌ ‌skins‌ ‌to‌ ‌produce‌ ‌leather‌ ‌products.‌ ‌If‌ ‌tradition‌ ‌and‌ ‌medieval‌ ‌period‌ ‌texts‌ ‌are‌ ‌to‌ ‌be‌ ‌believed‌ ‌then‌ ‌Ravidas‌ ‌was‌ ‌one‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌believers‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌bhakti‌ ‌saint-poet‌ ‌Ramananda‌ ‌and‌ ‌a‌ ‌present-day ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌bhakti‌ ‌saint-poet‌ ‌Kabir.‌ ‌

Ravidas‌ ‌showed‌ ‌the‌ ‌moving ‌of‌ ‌social‌ ‌divisions‌ ‌of‌ ‌caste‌ ‌and‌ ‌gender‌ ‌and‌ ‌promoted‌ ‌unity‌ ‌in‌ ‌the pursuit‌ ‌of‌ ‌personal‌ ‌spiritual‌ ‌freedoms.‌

Early‌ ‌Life‌ ‌and Education

Scholars‌ ‌state‌ ‌he‌ ‌was‌ ‌born‌ ‌in‌ ‌1450‌ ‌CE‌ ‌and‌ ‌died‌ ‌in‌ ‌1520‌ ‌CE.‌ ‌Guru Ravidas‌ ‌was‌ ‌born‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌village‌ ‌of‌ ‌Seer‌ ‌Goverdhanpur,‌ ‌near‌ ‌Varanasi‌ ‌in‌ ‌what‌ ‌is‌ ‌now‌ ‌Uttar‌ ‌Pradesh,‌ ‌India.‌ ‌His‌ ‌birthplace‌ ‌is‌ ‌now‌ ‌known‌ ‌as‌ ‌Shri‌ ‌Guru‌ ‌Ravidas‌ ‌Janam‌ ‌Asthan.‌ ‌Ravidas mother name is Mata‌ ‌Ghurbinia‌, ‌and‌ ‌his‌ ‌father‌ ‌was‌ ‌Raghuram.‌ ‌

His‌ ‌parents‌ ‌belonged‌ ‌to‌ ‌a‌ ‌leather-working‌ ‌Chamar‌ ‌community‌ ‌making‌ ‌them‌ ‌an‌ ‌untouchable‌ ‌caste.‌ ‌While‌ ‌his‌ ‌original‌ ‌occupation‌ ‌was‌ ‌leatherwork,‌ ‌he‌ ‌began‌ ‌to‌ ‌spend‌ ‌most‌ ‌of‌ ‌his‌ ‌time‌ ‌in‌ ‌spiritual‌ ‌pursuits‌ ‌at‌ ‌the‌ ‌bank‌ ‌of‌ ‌river‌ ‌Ganga.‌ ‌

Thereafter‌ ‌he‌ ‌spent‌ ‌most‌ ‌of‌ ‌his‌ ‌life‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌company‌ ‌of‌ ‌Sufi‌ ‌saints,‌ ‌sadhus‌ ‌and‌ ‌ascetics.‌ In his childhood, he went to the Pathshala of his Guru, Pt. Sharda Nand who was later restricted by some higher caste people to get admitted to the Pathshala. 

However, Pt. Sharda Nand realized that Ravidas is a child boy and sent by God as a godly boy. Pt. Sharda Nand acknowledge Ravidas to his own Pathshala and started teaching him. 

He was a very exceptionally brilliant and promising student and got more than what he was taught by his Guru Pt. Sharda Nand was very much affected by him and his behaviour and he felt that one-day Ravidas would be spiritually enlightened and become a great social reformer.

During his study time in the Pathshala, he became a friend of the son of Pt. Sharda Nand. One day both of them were playing together with the game hide and seek. First-time Ravidas had won the game and the second time his friend won the game.  

In the next turn, it was the time of Ravidas again to hide and seek by his friend but they couldn't complete the game because in view of the night then they decided to continue the game in the next morning.  

Next morning Guru Ravidas came but his friend did not he waits for a long time and then went to his friend’s home to get him and saw that his friend’s parents and neighbours were whimpers. He asked about his friend to one of them and surprised after hearing the news of his friend died that night. 

He was brought by the Pt. Sharda Nand to the place of the dead body of his friend, he asked his friend that it is not sleeping time, it is time to get up and play the game of hiding and seek. As Guru Ravidas was blessed by the spiritual powers from the birth, his friend got alive after hearing his words. The parents and neighbours of his friend were very surprised by seeing that surprising moment.

Literary Works

The Adi Granth of Sikhs and Panchvani of the Hindu warrior-ascetic group Dadupanthis are the two most oldest attested sources of the literary works of Ravidas. And he is one of thirty-six contributors to this foremost canonical scripture of Sikhism and in the Adi Granth, forty of Ravidas's poem are included.

This collection of poetry in Adi Granth reacts to, among other things, issues of dealing with conflict and tyranny, war and goals, and willingness to dedicate one's life to the right cause. The poetry of Ravidas's covers the topics such as the definition of a just state where there are no second or third class unequal citizens, the need for dispassion, and who is a real Yogi.