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Guru Ramdas, whose birth anniversary celebrations are being marked 2nd Nov, was the fourth of the ten Gurus of Sikhism.Prime Minister conveyed greetings to the citizens on the occasion of Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Ramdas Ji, 4th Sikh Guru.

Guru Ram Das Ji

• Sri Guru Ramdas Ji placed great emphasis on serving others, ending all forms of inequality and discrimination
• Guru Ram Das was the fourth of the ten Gurus of Sikhism.
• He was born on 24 September 1534 in a family based in Lahore.At age 12, he met Guru Amar Das and accepted him as his mentor and served him
• As with the first two Gurus of Sikhism, Guru Amar Das instead of choosing his own sons, chose him as his successor and renamed him as Ram Das or "servant or slave of god."
• Guru Ram Das became the Guru of Sikhism in 1574 and served as the Sikh leader until his death in 1581.
• He faced hostilities from the sons of Amar Das, shifted his official base to lands identified by Amar Das as Guru-ka-Chak.
• This newly founded town was eponymous Ramdaspur, later to evolve and get renamed as Amritsar – the holiest city of Sikhism.
• He is also remembered in the Sikh tradition for expanding the manji organization for clerical appointments and donation collections to theologically and economically support the Sikh movement.
• He appointed his own son as his successor, and unlike the first four Gurus who were not related through descent, the fifth through tenth Sikh Gurus were the direct descendants of Ram Das.

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