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News:Guru Ravidas Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Sant Ravidas is being celebrated across the country on February 9th,2020.

Facts:

About Guru Ravidas:

Guru Ravidas was a 14th century saint and reformer of the Bhakti movement in North India.
He was born as a member of an untouchable leather-working Chamar caste.
He gained prominence due to his belief in one God and his unbiased religious poems.
He advocated for the removal of social divisions of caste and gender and promoted unity in the pursuit of personal spiritual freedoms.
The famous saint poetess,Mirabai was a disciple of Guru Ravidas.
Around 41 poems of Guru Ravidas were included in ‘Guru Granth Sahib’, the religious text of the Sikhs.