Anti-caste / Egalitarianism

Tukārām

• Abhanga 4544 — Shelter and protection go to everyone equally, regardless of caste or background, based only on sincere devoti
• Abhanga 2381 — For today: Name has no-price; just two letters — Rāma Rāma; no caste, no religion, no jāti — all included in t
• Abhanga 3066 — Tukārām calls Jñāneśvar his mother and father, showing that honoring the teacher and lineage who shaped you is
• Abhanga 3814 — Whoever sincerely holds the Name of God has no caste distinction left, just as iron becomes gold, rainwater be
• Abhanga 3816 — A person's real priorities are revealed by contrast, in how generously they treat pleasure and status compared
• Abhanga 3855 — Judge the actual quality of a thing or person, not the humble or unlikely place it came from.
• Abhanga 4012 — In times of moral confusion, people twist spiritual ideas to excuse indulgence, but real steadiness comes from
• Abhanga 4090 — A place and community of genuine devotion can transform even the most deluded or wicked person into someone co
• Abhanga 4096 — The true worth of a person or a good thing does not depend on their origin or caste, but on their genuine qual
• Abhanga 4118 — When you fully surrender your whole self, the usual anxieties about gain and loss, right and wrong, self and o
• Abhanga 4205 — Devotion asks for nothing but love and the Name in every state of being, and it declares that birth, caste, or
• Abhanga 4273 — If your time, money, and attention flow easily to everything except God and genuine goodness while spiritual p
• Abhanga 4275 — Holiness comes from devotion, not birth: saints have risen from every caste, trade, and religion, so no heredi
• Abhanga 4355 — Caste-based judgment of work is circular and self-defeating, and pride in caste ultimately degrades the very p
• Abhanga 4356 — Repeating the Name in ordinary moments like eating and drinking water replaces every elaborate ritual and rema
• Abhanga 4369 — Knowing scripture by heart is worthless without knowing yourself, while even an unlearned person is never forg
• Abhanga 4459 — Simply saying God's name with joy, wherever you are and whatever you're doing, costs nothing and is open to ev
• Abhanga 4469 — A completely sincere, wholehearted cry for help, even a child's simple hunger driven prayer, is what moves God
• Abhanga 4476 — Tukaram describes bhakti as an open market with no caste-based seating, where anyone can enter on credit and t
• Abhanga 2371 — Those born as washermen or barbers in a former life go on carrying that same caste-work in this one, just as a
• Abhanga 2391 — For today: no ornament without heating; enemies become friends through destruction; let the body bear bhoga; m
• Abhanga 2509 — For today: without fulfillment, what greatness for you?
• Abhanga 2519 — For today: Gōpāḷā's-string makes one-jāti — anubhava removes doubt .
• Abhanga 2526 — Real purity comes from within through grace, not from keeping ritual distance from people of other castes or s
• Abhanga 3040 — Outward signs and costumes don't make you what you're imitating; be honestly what you are instead of performin

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