{"id":2248,"date":"2023-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/06-02-2023\/sant-ravidas\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"sant-ravidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/06-02-2023\/sant-ravidas","title":{"rendered":"Sant Ravidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current-affairs\/15-02-2022\/guru-ravidas-jayanti\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><strong>Sant Ravidas on his Jayanti.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The day commemorates the birth of the famous Bhakti Movement saint.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0This year marks the 646th anniversary<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>About Sant Ravidas<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He was a mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti Movement from the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>15th and 16th centuries.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He was a great poet, social reformer, and spiritual figure.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He is also known<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> as Raidas, Rohidas, and Ruhidas<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Contributions\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>His devotional songs<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>verses left an indelible mark<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current-affairs\/25-06-2021\/sant-kabir-jayanti\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><strong>Bhakti Movement.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He was a disciple of Sant Kabir and the founder of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Ravidassia religion.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> Mirabai was his pupil.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Sikh scripture<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> Guru Granth Sahib, <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">contains<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> forty-one of his devotional songs and poems.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>philosophy and values <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">of Guru Ravidasji like social justice, equality, and fraternity have been imbued in our constitutional values.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:square\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Chief Architect of our Constitution<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar embodied the Constitutional principles around the values expressed by Guru Ravidasji.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse; border:none; table-layout:fixed; width:624px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color:#d9ead3; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; border-left:1px solid #000000; border-right:1px solid #000000; border-top:1px solid #000000; vertical-align:top\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Who are the Ravidassias?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The Ravidassias are a Dalit community of whom the bulk \u2014 nearly 12 lakh \u2014 live in Punjab\u2019s Doaba region comprising Jalandhar, Hoshirpur, Kapurthala, and NawanShahr.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0The Dera Sachkhand Ballan, their largest dera with 20 lakh followers worldwide, was founded in the early 20th century by Baba Sant Pipal Das. Once closely connected with Sikhism, the dera severed these decades-old ties in 2010 and announced they would follow the Ravidassia religion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/new-updates\/guru-ravidas-jayanti-2023-purnima-tithi-significance-rituals-and-celebrations\/articleshow\/97604538.cms?from=mdr\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><strong>ET<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Sant Ravidas on his Jayanti. The day commemorates the birth of the famous Bhakti Movement saint. \u00a0This year marks the 646th anniversary About Sant Ravidas He was a mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti Movement from the 15th and 16th centuries. He was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs1"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/64600472962218D1C2BEA-B42D-44CA-AC90-12BFBC61D8CC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}