Bhagat Pipa

• Honorific Prefix — Bhagat • Name — Pipa • Honorific Suffix — Bairagi • Other Names — Raja Pipaji Pratap Singh Rao Pipa Sardar Pipa Sant Pipaji Pipa Bairagi • Spouse — Rani Sita • Children — Raja Dwarkanath • Born — 5 April 1425 • Died — Unknown (~early 15th century) • Birthplace — Gagron, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India • Occupation — Ruler of Gagron • Religion — Hinduism • Sect — Ramanandi Sampradaya • Teacher — Ramananda • Philosophy — Vishishtadvaita • Known for — 1 verse in Guru Granth Sahib.

• Illustration — Pipa (rightmost) with other Bhagats of Hinduism/Sikhism, Ravidas, Kabir and Namdev. • Illustration — Detail of Bhagat Pipa from a mural at Gurdwara Baba Atal in Amritsar Pipa was born into a Rajput royal family at Gagaron, in the present-day Jhalawar district of Rajasthan. He became the king of Gagaraungarh. Pipa worshipped the Hindu goddess Durga Bhavani and kept her idol in a temple within his palace. While Pipa was the king Gagaraungarh, he abdicated and became a 'sanyasi' and accepted Ramananda as his guru. He then joined Ramananda's Vaishnavism Bhakti, a movement with a strong monist emphasis based out of Varanasi. In one of his works "Sri Vaishnav Dharm Mangalam" he says: According to Bhaktamal, a Bhakti movement hagiography, his wife, Sita, stayed with him before and after his abdication when he became a wandering monk. The hagiography mentions many episodes of his sannyasa life, such as one where robbers tried to steal his buffalo that provided milk to his companions. When he stumbled into the robbery in progress, he began helping the robbers and suggested that they should take the calf. The robbers were so touched that they abandoned their ways and became Pipa's disciples. In his later life, Bhagat Pipa, as with several other disciples of Ramananda such as Kabir and Dadu Dayal, shifted his devotional worship from saguni Vishnu avatar (Dvaita, dualism) to nirguni (Advaita, monism) god, that is, from god with attributes to god without attributes. According to the records found with local bards, 52 Rajput chiefs from clans of Gohil, Chauhan, Dahiya, Chavada, Dabhi, Makwana (Jhala), Rakhecha, Bhati, Parmar, Tanwar, Solanki, and Parihar resigned from their titles and offices and gave up alcohol, meat, and violence. Instead, those chiefs dedicated their lives to the teachings of their guru & former king. Pipa's dates of birth and death are unknown, but the traditional genealogy in Bhakti hagiography suggests that he died in 1400 CE.

Shri Krishna Bhakta Peepaji (1923) by Shree Nath Patankar and Bhakt Peepaji (1980) by Dinesh Rawal are two Indian films about the legends of the saint.