Ravidasi beliefs and practices
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Ravidasi beliefs are an off-shoot of the Bhakti and Sant movements of the fifteenth century, a religious renaissance in India.
Guru Ravidass, the founder of the Ravidasi faith taught the following principles:
- The oneness, omnipresence and omnipotence of God, who is called Hari.
- The human soul is a particle of the Divine; the different between the two is like the difference between gold and the ornament, water and the wave.
- The rejection of caste.
- To realize God, which is the ultimate end of human life, man should concentrate on Hari, giving up rituals.
- Birth in a low caste is no hindrance in the way to spiritual development.
- The only way to Moksha is to free the mind from duality.
- Pilgrimage and bathing in holy lakes is in vain.
The Shri Guru Ravidas Mission London states that:
- Ravidas is the founder of the Ravidasi religion.
- One who believes in Guru Ravidas' philosophy is a Ravidasi.
- It is not a condition that one should have been born in the Ravidasi community to become or initiated as one.
- The holy scripture for the Ravidasi religion is the Guru Sikhya Sahib.
- To celebrate Shri Guru Ravidas Jayanti according to the Indian calendar, Sunday, Sukhal Falgin Parvithta.
- To meditate on 'Sohang’ or ‘Har.'
- Whenever any Ravidasi receives, meets, writes or addresses a fellow Ravidasi, he or she should say “Jai Gurudev”
