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Sant Charandas was a major religious teacher in Delhi during the eighteenth century.

Charandas was born in Derha, near Alwar, in Rajasthan in 1703. His family belonged to the baniyar caste (merchant class). He was called Ranjit as a child.

Following the disappearance of his father while Ranjit was still a child, he and his mother then moved to live in Delhi.

As a child Charandas claimed to have had a vision of the divine sage Śukdev. He spent periods in meditating in the forest and met Śukdev again at the age of nineteen. Śukdev initiated him