Ravidas
Begampura
Ravidas imagines a city without sorrow, humiliation, or fear.
Why return to it: It is devotion as social imagination: a prayer that becomes a vision of dignity for all.
Included here: Source-safe original/transliteration where appropriate and a poetic English rendering.
Original / source note
Begampura sahar ko nāu
Dūkh andohu nahīñ tihi thāu.
English transliteration
Begampura sahar ko nāu
Dūkh andohu nahīñ tihi thāu.
Poetic English rendering
The city is called Begampura — the place without sorrow. No grief taxes the heart there; no one is made small at another’s gate.