Lakh Lakh Wadhiyhan, Janam Dihara Dhan Dhan Bhagat Ravi Das

[sikhiseeker]

What a great person, what a great character, what a great mind, what a great life! How inspirational Bhagat Ravidas was and still is today, his love for waheguru had no bounds or limit!

[Mehtab Singh]

Once someone offered Bhagat Ravidas ji a paras (the philosopher's stone that turns cheaper metal into Gold) and assured him he could get any amount of wealth by making use of it. Bhagat Ravidass Ji asked him to place it in a corner. When he came to see Bhagat Ravidass Ji again after some months, he found the saint still lurking in poverty. He asked him why he had not utilized the paras. Bhagat Ravidass ji remarked that for him, "God's Name alone was the paras, that was the "kamdhen" and "chintamani".

[singhbj singh]

February 14, is the birth anniversary of Bhagat Ravidas ji [1450 - 1520, estimated]

Bhagat Ravidas, poet and mystic, was born to Raghao and Ghurbinia , who lived near the city of Varanasi, in present day Uttar Pradesh, India.

Not much of biographical information about him is available but, from what can be made out of his own compositions, he belonged to a Hindu 'low-caste' (leather worker/ cobbler) family. He followed the family profession of tanning hides and making shoes.

Gradually he started spending most of his time in the company of Saints and Sadhus and built himself a thatched hut wherein he received and entertained wandering ascetics. Many stories became known about his simplicity and piety of nature. He became famous as a Vaishnava saint in the tradition of Ramanand.

In the course of his spiritual quest, he reached a stage when he discarded images and idols and turned to the worship of the Supreme Being. He wrote deeply impassioned devotional verses and left his mark on Hindi literature for the fusion of religious sentiment with the vernacular medium.

Forty of his hymns have been incorporated in the holy Sikh Scripture, Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Accordingly, he is accorded deep respect by Sikhs as his compositions form part of our Living Guru. He is therefore accorded the high honorofic of "Bhagat" - literally, God's Devotee - by Sikhs, as are the other non-Guru contributors to the Guru Granth Sahib.

The hymns of Ravidas included in the Guru Granth Sahib fall under Raga Siri(1), Gauri (5), Asa(6), Gujari(1), Sorathi(7), Dhanasari(3), Jaitsari(1),Suhi(3), Bilaval(2), Gaund(2), Ramkali(1), Maru(2), Kedara(1), Bhairau(1), Basant(1), and Malhar. One of the hymns in raga Maru is the same (with a few minor changes) as included in raga Sorathi.

Ravidas acknowledged the unicity and omnipresence and omnipotence of God. According to him, the human soul is only a particle of the Divine : the difference between the two is like the difference between the gold and the ornament, the water and the wave (GGS:93).

He rejects distinctions between man and man on the basis of caste or creed, for, as he says, in the world beyond no such differentiation will be acknowledged (GGS: 345). To realize God, which is the ultimate end of human life, man should concentrate on His Name, giving up mere forms and ritualism (GGS: 658, 1106). Birth in a 'low caste' is no hindrance in the way to spiritual development. The only condition required is freedom from duality; all else including pilgrimage to and bathing in the sixty-eight hindu centers is in vain (GGS: 875).

Source - https://www.facebook.com/BaruSahibHP

[singhbj singh]

Bhagat Ravidas ji de aagaman purab di beant vadhai hoveh ji.

Note - Information about parents & birth year provided by Baru Sahib Facebook differs from the one posted by Mehtab Singh (CentralSikhMuseum.com pic)

[Guest dasguruka]

New look with the dastaar Im all for it!

[simran345]

Vadaiyan ji Babaji de janam dihare dian.

Before Sikhi many holy people did not wear dastaars but had long hair.

Either way they are no different from anybody that wears a dastaar, like our Gurus said everybody is equal.

Satkaar iko jehi honi chaidi, dastaar or not.

[sikhiseeker]

Vadaiyan ji Babaji de janam dihare dian.

Before Sikhi many holy people did not wear dastaars but had long hair.

Either way they are no different from anybody that wears a dastaar, like our Gurus said everybody is equal.

Satkaar iko jehi honi chaidi, dastaar or not.

WJKK, WJKF

totally agree with you sister, don't understand why people have to put an image of bhagat ravidas wearing a pag, never seen it before, the norms all image would be fine I think.