संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Anger

What the five voices say — 186 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2484 — Real devotion can include anger and demand, not just sweetness, because a devotee who truly loves God can push
  • Abhanga 2389 — For today: be without enmity to all beings — this alone is the good sādhana; only then Nārāyaṇa accepts; kin a
  • Abhanga 2392 — The true test of a person is whether joy and anger can dissolve quietly within them, and steady endurance thro
  • Abhanga 2458 — Seeing the divine in every person, holding peace and compassion in your own body, letting dispassion burn brig
  • Abhanga 2469 — Closeness to God is naturally available; the whole of devoted practice comes down to steadily holding Viṭhoba'
  • Abhanga 2517 — Let go of grudges and envy, since they only harm you, and find real peace by keeping forgiveness alive within
  • Abhanga 4021 — The Name is itself the rescuer across the ocean of worldly life, and simply repeating it with steadiness disso
  • Abhanga 4092 — Ask to truly see the divine in every person, not just believe it, so that anger and judgment naturally stop ar
  • Abhanga 4227 — The real pollution is not another person's touch but your own anger pouring hell out through your mouth, and t
  • Abhanga 4259 — People often stay wide awake for idle distraction while dozing through what is truly nourishing, and naming th
  • Abhanga 4279 — Just as a fruit's bitterness disappears as it ripens, devotion slowly dissolves desire, anger, and greed until
  • Abhanga 4426 — The vices surround a person from every side, like hunters, and naming exactly how each one traps you is the fi
  • Abhanga 4480 — Tukaram voices the full rawness of feeling abandoned by God, using the shocking image of a discarded fetus, sh
  • Abhanga 4539 — Needing to prove your importance through anger and punishment is itself the pride that keeps the true divine,
  • Abhanga 2452 — Freedom is not something you can claim with words alone; it is only real once your reactions of joy and anger
  • Abhanga 2511 — Plant yourself firmly at what you claim as yours, trust that real effort can overcome anything, and burn away
  • Abhanga 2573 — For today: debate with you brings only disgrace — I peacefully watch the feet .
  • Abhanga 3053 — The gap between what people claim to honor and how they actually act is often just their nature, which anger a
  • Abhanga 3091 — Durvasa's honest rebuke, holding the Lord accountable to his own titles of compassion, pleases rather than ang
  • Abhanga 3598 — Chanting the divine Name while your heart is full of anger and slander is not devotion, it is empty performanc
  • Abhanga 3609 — A mother's anger and her kindness weigh the same on her scale, both come from unbroken love that teaches only
  • Abhanga 4006 — Hostility toward good people can tempt even a wise voice into birth-based judgments that contradict their own
  • Abhanga 4084 — Taking satisfaction in another's downfall stains your own character and erodes your goodness, so let go of suc
  • Abhanga 4086 — Outward piety cannot make someone truly good if their heart is still ruled by desire and anger underneath.
  • Abhanga 4203 — A life spent chasing wealth while devotion is left for later is essentially wasted, and honest words that expo

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