Ravidas Essays

  • Mirabai

    1252 Words  | 3 Pages

    Many scholars have tried to piece together information about the life of Mira. Most of the sources used to put the pieces of her life together have been through her autobiographic poems. Mirabai was born in 1498 A.D. in Kudki. She was the daughter of Ratan Singh. Her grandfather was Rao Duda, who was the ruler of an independent powerful state in Rajasthan named Merta. Mirabai's mother died when she turned two, and so her grandfather took her to Merta and raised her there. Rao Duda was a "man

  • Significance Of The Bhakti Movement

    814 Words  | 2 Pages

    hand, Saguna Brahman is developed with forms, attributes and quality. This distinction gave rise to two branches in bhakti family. The saints that prefer to worship God “without attributes” are categorised as Nirguna and three of them are Kabir, Ravidas, and Nanak. Those who take the opposite i.e. “with attributes” or “with form” are called bhaktas and are categorised under Saguna. Surdas, Mirabai and Tulsidas are of the “with attributes”

  • New Delhi Gang Raping

    1198 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the New Delhi rape case justice is something that is very difficult to attain. For the family of the victim the sentience of the four rapists; Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh, were sentenced to death for their crime. The victim's family was in the courtroom as the sentence was announced. "I am very happy our girl has got justice," said the victim's father. According to Judge Khanna said the attack "shocked the collective conscience" of India, and that "courts cannot turn a

  • Mysticism In The Bhakti Movement

    2365 Words  | 5 Pages

    In our universe there are numbers of worshiping ways to God. Every religion has its own set of worshiping styles and perception. Mystics of Sufis have made their own place outside these groups. A mystic might be follower of Christianity or Islam or any other religion but his perceptions to worship God are different from his own community. For example a Christian follower will go to church pray to God hear the sermon he might be doing all this with a perception of his religious duty fear from hell

  • The Theme of Self-determinism in Fourth World Literature

    2374 Words  | 5 Pages

    Fourth world nations are obviously conscious reflections of the unfinished history which continues to assert the spirit of self-determinism of the millions of the displaced ones who constantly engage themselves in a struggle for justice and freedom in order to gain such a degree of sovereignty over their own national homeland for restoring their right to dignity and self-respect . These nations are conveniently called ‘internationally unrecognized’ nations. The term ‘fourth world’ which came