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[santmat]

Raidās [Sant Ravidas] also makes it clear that bhakti is not about asceticism or the pride-evoking practice of yoga but about losing oneself in the love of God [bhakti]. He sings,

"Bhakti is not like this, my brother. Whatever is done without the name of Rām, is all called delusion. Bhakti is not suppression of the senses, not speaking of wisdom, not digging a cave in the forest. Not some joke, not the snares of desire. This is not bhakti. Bhakti is not binding the senses, not practicing yoga, not eating less—all these practices are called karma. Bhakti is not reducing the sleep, not practicing renunciation. These practices are not bhakti; they are the pride of the Vedas.59"

Later in the poem Raidās states that bhakti happens when one loses the self in Rām*; all else is merely senseless pride and delusion.

-- A Genealogy of Devotion, Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India, by Patton E. Burchett

Ram, an early Sant name of the Formless Supreme Being (and not referring to any other "Ram" of Hindu mythology) - can be understood to be the true God beyond gods, or God above gods;

[mahanshukla]

मन चंगा तो कठौती मे गंगा । #santraidas #raidas #ravidas https://www.instagram.com/p/ClIM5a9vBQ4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pandaemoniumpancakes]

How can I offer worship to Rām? I cannot find perfect fruits or flowers. Milk is defiled by the calf at the udder,          flowers are polluted by the bee,                  water by the fish. The serpent has coiled around the sandal-wood,          poison and nectar are mixed together. Through the mind alone there is worship,          through the mind alone incense is offered. Through the mind alone          I serve the essence of sahaj. I do not know how to adore or worship you, Rām. Raidās says, what is to be my fate?

Raidas, song from the Pañc-vāṇī in Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience, ed. Peter Heehs, trans. Winand M. Callewaert, Peter G. Friedlander. 

   “References to Kabir in Raidas’s songs make it apparent that he was Kabir’s younger contemporary. Raidas also lived in Benares, but there is no historical evidence that the two ever met. Legend connects Raidas not only with Kabir but with Ramanand (who is supposed to have been his guru) and with Mira Bai (who is supposed to have been his disciple). Those who accept both of these stories are obliged to give Raidas a life span of a hundred-twenty years or more. Hagiography aside, the only source of information on Raidas’s life are his songs and those of later sants. 

   All agree that he was a camār or leather-worker and cobbler and thus (because of his contact with animal carcasses) an untouchable. The other thing that emerges clearly from Raidas’s songs is his acquaintance with the nirguṇ and saguṇ devotional traditions, and the practices and experiences of nath yoga. Few give better accounts of the experience of mystical union, which he frequently refers to as sahaj—the state in which the truths of the many and the One spontaneously blend. About a hundred of Raidas’s songs have been preserved in the Pañc-vāṇī of the Dadu panth and the Ādi Granth of the Sikhs. (In the Ādi Granth, and in other sources, Raidas is called Ravidas.) These selections from the Pañc-vāṇī were translated from the Hindi by Winand M. Callewaert and Peter G. Friedlander.”

[ersachinrajpoot1993]

“ऐसा चाहूँ राज मैं जहाँ मिलै सबन को अन्न। छोट बड़ो सब सम बसै, रैदास रहै प्रसन्न।।“ अपने विचारों से सम्पूर्ण जगत में सामाजिक एकता व समरसता का सन्देश देने वाले, सामाजिक परिवर्तन के महानायक, दर्शनशास्त्री कवि व परमज्ञानी संत शिरोमणि रविदास जी महाराज की जयंती पर समस्त देश एवं प्रदेशवासियों को हार्दिक बधाई एवं शुभकामनाएं। #SantShiromani #Ravidas #Raidas https://www.instagram.com/p/CaeKvUOlqyZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[janchowk]

समता, स्वतंत्रता, बंधुत्व और न्याय की भावना के सच्चे प्रतिनिधि थे रैदास

समता, स्वतंत्रता, बंधुत्व और न्याय की भावना के सच्चे प्रतिनिधि थे रैदास

संत रैदास वाणीऐसा चाहूँ राज मैं जहाँ मिलै सबन को अन्न।छोट बड़ो सब सम बसै, रैदास रहै प्रसन्न।।जात-जात में जात हैं, जो केलन के पात।रैदास मनुष ना जुड़ सके जब तक जात न जात।।रैदास कनक और कंगन माहि जिमि अंतर कछु नाहिं।तैसे ही अंतर नहीं हिन्दुअन तुरकन माहि।।हिंदू तुरक नहीं कछु भेदा सभी मह एक रक्त और मासा।दोऊ एकऊ दूजा नाहीं, पेख्यो सोइ रैदासा।।रैदास जन्म के कारनै, होत न कोउ नीच।नर कूँ नीच करि डारि है, ओछे…

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[saumendrachitravanshi]

“ऐसा चाहूँ राज मैं जहाँ मिलै सबन को अन्न। छोट बड़ो सब सम बसै, रैदास रहै प्रसन्न।।“ अपने विचारों से सम्पूर्ण जगत में सामाजिक एकता व समरसता का सन्देश देने वाले, सामाजिक परिवर्तन के महानायक, दर्शनशास्त्री कवि व परमज्ञानी संत शिरोमणि रविदास जी महाराज की जयंती पर समस्त देश एवं प्रदेशवासियों को हार्दिक बधाई एवं शुभकामनाएं। #SantShiromani #Ravidas #Raidas https://www.instagram.com/p/CLzLDWxLSxy/?igshid=1mizw877wnxhs

[jaikamal]

सामाजिक एकता व समरसता का सन्देश देने वाले, सामाजिक परिवर्तन के महानायक, दर्शनशास्त्री कवि व परमज्ञानी संत शिरोमणि रविदास जी की जयंती पर कोटि-कोटि नमन। #SantShiromani #Ravidas #Raidas https://www.instagram.com/p/CLyNsubgBfP/?igshid=11k157tio66bp