About this project

Read: Amritbani — a free, open, ad-free home for the Amritbani Satguru Ravidas Maharaj Ji, so anyone, anywhere, can read it.

The intention

The Amritbani Satguru Ravidas Maharaj Ji is the holy scripture of the Ravidassia religion, compiling the teachings of Guru Ravidas — Shabads, Pade, and Salok, along with shorter banis for daily and occasional use. The aim here is simple: a calm, beautiful place to read it on any device, in Gurmukhi, with transliteration for those still learning the script, and translation alongside. Nothing to buy, nothing in the way of the text.

What's inside

The scripture is organised into sections that can be browsed from the Contents page: 140 Shabads (hymns set to raga), 40 Pade (couplets), 231 Salok (epigrammatic verses), and shorter compositions — Painti Akhri, Bani Haftawar, Bani Pandran Tithi, Bara Maah Updesh, Dohra, Saand Bani, Anmol Vachan, Laawaan, Suhag Ustat, and Manglachar.

Where this stands today

This site is newly under construction. The reader, navigation, and layout are built and working, but the text shown right now is placeholder sample data — not the verified Amritbani. The next step is sourcing and checking the complete text before it replaces the samples.

Contributing

Corrections to Gurbani text, transliteration, or translation will be especially welcome once the real text is in place — accuracy matters here. If you'd like to help with sourcing or verifying the text, please get in touch.

ਜੈ ਗੁਰੂਦੇਵ, ਧੰਨ ਗੁਰੂਦੇਵ ॥