Ravidās

An original Tatpada life of Ravidās, tanner and poet of Banaras, in two parts for reading aloud, told together with Kabīr and Pīpā as the three took one teacher at one ghāṭ; with 40 of his songs.

40 Verses

Chant this
The songs
Read the songs in one flow
  1. You and I, I and you
  2. Do not forget me, I am your servant
  3. Begampura, the city without sorrow
  4. I am a trader of Rām's
  5. Like a frog in a well
  6. How am I to reach the far shore
  7. The lamp of discernment gone dim
  8. Between the saint and the Endless One
  9. You are sandalwood, I am the castor plant
  10. The rope of love
  11. Hari, Hari, Hari
  12. How this puppet of clay dances
  13. What shall I bring to Gōbind's worship
  14. When I was, you were not
  15. I have tied you in the bonds of love
  16. This birth is hard to come by
  17. Nothing equal to the name of Rām
  18. If you are the mountain, I am the peacock
  19. A wall of water, a pillar of wind
  20. This cobbler knows nothing of knotting
  21. For many births I was parted from you
  22. Let my love for Gōbind never grow less
  23. Your Name is my ārtī
  24. Nāth, I know nothing
  25. How would you know another's pain
  26. The days that come are the days that go
  27. A screen of grass
  28. They laugh when they see how poor I am
  29. In whatever family a sādhu is born
  30. Mukand while I live, Mukand when I die
  31. How is a slanderer to cross over
  32. How is iron to become gold
  33. Who but you, beloved
  34. Nothing stands level with the name of Rām
  35. Why will you not look at Bālmīk
  36. For the sake of the fruit the woods flower
  37. Why so proud, madwoman
  38. My caste is known far and wide
  39. Kabīr, known in all three worlds
  40. Whatever I joined together tore