Guru Ramdas Ji is always remembered as the founder of the city of Amritsar and he was the Chautbi Patshahi or the fourth Guru of Sikhs. He successfully kept alive the tradition of the first three Gurus among his descendants and he reigned as the Guru of Sikhs, for a very short period. He somehow became successful to manage to get a land where he laid the foundation of a new town named Ramdaspur and this town later changed its name to Amritsar.

The contemporary people of India still consider the town of Amritsar as one of the most sacred cities of Sikh community and Guru Ramdas Ji dug a tank in Amritsar that also became the principal place of pilgrimage. Guru Ramdas had the habit of generously inviting the traders and businessmen to the town and the town also became an important trade and religious centre in Northern India, consequently, by the course of time.

The tank of Amritsar that Guru Ramdas Ji dug during his reign became very famous for "Ramdas Sarovar Nahate, Sab uttre paap kamdte" and the Sikh community believes that taking bath in the tank washes away all the sins. The city of Amritsar for the Sikhs, is like what is Mecca is for the Muslims and all these works of Ramdas Ji reveal one thing that the Guru did have his own mission and he also tried to do everything for establishing his mission as a separate religious system and entity.