Beliefs
Ravidass' teachings represent an offshoot of the bhakti movement of the fifteenth century, a religious renaissance in India. Ravidass taught the following principles:
- The oneness, omnipresence and omnipotence of God, who is called Har, Hari, and Rama
- The human soul is a particle of the Divine; the difference between the two being like the difference between gold and the bangle, water and the wave.
- The rejection of caste.
- To realize God, which is the goal of human life, man should concentrate on Har, giving up rituals.
- The only way to liberation (moksha) is to free the mind from duality.
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