He was a shoemaker of the Kutbandhla Chamar caste. He was a socio-religious reformer, a thinker, a theosophist, a humanist and a poet. His devotional songs and verses made a lasting impact upon the bhakti movement. Ravidas Ji is also known as Guru Ravidas, Bhagat Ravidas, Sant Ravidas, Raidas, Rohidas and Ruhidas.He taught that one is distinguished not by one's caste (jāti) but by one's actions (karma) and that every person has the right to worship God and read holy texts. Ravidas was subversive in that his devotionalism implied a levelling of the social divisions of caste and gender, yet ecumenical in that it tended to promote crossing of sectarian divides in the name of a higher spiritual unity. There is also a larger body of hymns passed on independently that is claimed and attributed by some to Ravidas ji. A shoemaker of the Chamar caste, all of his devotional songs were preserved included in the Sikh holy book, the Adi Granth, by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev.
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