Ravidas
Begampura
Ravidas imagines a city without sorrow, fear, or humiliation.
Why return to it: It joins devotion with social imagination. The spiritual dream is also a dream of dignity for everyone.
Source note: Ravidas is a historical bhakti voice; this page provides a source-safe summary and original rendering.
Original / noted line
Begampura
Begampura: the city without sorrow, where no one lives under fear or humiliation.
English transliteration
Transliteration
Begampura: dukh se pare nagar, jahān apmān aur bhay na ho.
Poetic English rendering
Rendering
Let there be a city where no one is diminished, where the soul is not taxed by fear, and where dignity is ordinary.