मन चंगा तो कठौती में गंगा॥

If the mind is pure, the Ganga flows even in a humble bowl.

Ravidas · Verse

Translator's note

on the language of the verse

Inner purity matters more than pilgrimage.

The voice

Ravidas

रविदास

The Leatherworker Who Imagined a Casteless World, c. 1450 – 1520.

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