Guru Ravidas was born in the fifteenth century near Varanasi city in Uttar Pradesh to a wealthy family who were in leather business. At a very young age he showed spiritual inclination and used to attend discourses. To involve him in worldly affairs he was married in a very young age. But this did not dither Ravidas. Dejected his father sent him out of the family home. Ravidas stated living in makeshift house and began mending shoes for livelihood.