#raidas

"Bhakti is not like this, my brother. Whatever is done without the name of Rām, is all called delusion. Bhakti is not suppression of the senses, not speaking of wisdom, not digging a cave in the forest. Not some joke, not the snares of desire. This is not bhakti. Bhakti is not binding the senses, not practicing yoga, not eating less—all these practices are called karma. Bhakti is not reducing the sleep, not practicing renunciation. These practices are not bhakti; they are the pride of the Vedas.59"

Later in the poem Raidās states that bhakti happens when one loses the self in Rām*; all else is merely senseless pride and delusion.

-- A Genealogy of Devotion, Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India, by Patton E. Burchett

Ram, an early Sant name of the Formless Supreme Being (and not referring to any other "Ram" of Hindu mythology) - can be understood to be the true God beyond gods, or God above gods;

Raidas, song from the Pañc-vāṇī in Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience, ed. Peter Heehs, trans. Winand M. Callewaert, Peter G. Friedlander. 

   “References to Kabir in Raidas’s songs make it apparent that he was Kabir’s younger contemporary. Raidas also lived in Benares, but there is no historical evidence that the two ever met. Legend connects Raidas not only with Kabir but with Ramanand (who is supposed to have been his guru) and with Mira Bai (who is supposed to have been his disciple). Those who accept both of these stories are obliged to give Raidas a life span of a hundred-twenty years or more. Hagiography aside, the only source of information on Raidas’s life are his songs and those of later sants. 

समता, स्वतंत्रता, बंधुत्व और न्याय की भावना के सच्चे प्रतिनिधि थे रैदास

संत रैदास वाणीऐसा चाहूँ राज मैं जहाँ मिलै सबन को अन्न।छोट बड़ो सब सम बसै, रैदास रहै प्रसन्न।।जात-जात में जात हैं, जो केलन के पात।रैदास मनुष ना जुड़ सके जब तक जात न जात।।रैदास कनक और कंगन माहि जिमि अंतर कछु नाहिं।तैसे ही अंतर नहीं हिन्दुअन तुरकन माहि।।हिंदू तुरक नहीं कछु भेदा सभी मह एक रक्त और मासा।दोऊ एकऊ दूजा नाहीं, पेख्यो सोइ रैदासा।।रैदास जन्म के कारनै, होत न कोउ नीच।नर कूँ नीच करि डारि है, ओछे…