Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Think of Kabir, a weaver; Sain, a barber; Naamdev, a cloth-printer; Ravi Daas, who worked with leather — people the world called low.
But their love lifted them to the very highest, because they saw every single person as equal. That is what greatness looks like.
Kabir, Sain, Naamdev and Ravi Daas were saints from castes that fifteenth-century society treated as low, and their hymns were later gathered into the Guru Granth Sahib itself. The key word is samadrasee: looking upon everyone with equal vision. Their greatness came not from birth or rank but from love that saw no one as lesser. Honoring them here is a quiet, radical act of caste-leveling.
Have you ever seen someone treated as less important than they are? How did it feel?
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