Anti-hypocrisy

Tukārām

• Abhanga 3795 — Let everything else burn away — cleverness, reputation, cold reasoning, even the body — and keep only your hea
• Abhanga 3918 — Tukaram says wearing the outward signs of renunciation means nothing if you still crave fine food and public r
• Abhanga 3925 — Having just listed seven kinds of fake renunciates, Tukaram now asks the real question: who has actually renou
• Abhanga 4068 — Sacred practice like kirtana should never be monetized or used for self-honor, because true devotion means alr
• Abhanga 4191 — Reciting words without understanding their meaning is a waste, only someone who has genuinely grasped and live
• Abhanga 4201 — People who parade their household success rarely see their own faults, yet freely catalog everyone else's, whi
• Abhanga 4273 — If your time, money, and attention flow easily to everything except God and genuine goodness while spiritual p
• Abhanga 4309 — Outward rituals, book learning, music, and knowledgeable talk mean nothing to Tukaram unless the mind is truly
• Abhanga 4370 — Mere talk and word-knowledge, like a curry or rice made only of speech, can never satisfy or truly count as re
• Abhanga 4387 — Some things are sacred precisely because they cannot be sold, and turning devotion into a paid transaction cor
• Abhanga 4423 — A guru-disciple relationship that is really just a financial arrangement dressed up as spiritual authority des
• Abhanga 4426 — The vices surround a person from every side, like hunters, and naming exactly how each one traps you is the fi
• Abhanga 3040 — Outward signs and costumes don't make you what you're imitating; be honestly what you are instead of performin
• Abhanga 3055 — Do not turn sacred things such as mantras, daughters, or the divine Name into a source of income; genuine devo
• Abhanga 3064 — Ego must fall and the heart must be sincere before knowledge or teaching becomes real; without genuine feeling
• Abhanga 3074 — Turning kirtana or devotional singing into a paid transaction corrupts it, and both the one who takes money fo
• Abhanga 3118 — Tukaram insists that only lived experience counts here, not recited stories, comparing true discernment to a s
• Abhanga 3260 — Some people's low nature will not change no matter how much good teaching or kindness you offer, so recognize
• Abhanga 3347 — Outward religious show without genuine inner feeling does no real good, since it is a person's sincere devotio
• Abhanga 3353 — True devotion means actually living out simple, humble practices, not merely claiming the identity while feeli
• Abhanga 3482 — Only effort rooted deeply and offered honestly survives real testing; shallow effort and pretense are simply w
• Abhanga 3488 — What comes from genuine faith rather than clever intellect is true from its very source, whether or not everyo
• Abhanga 3555 — Talking about wisdom without living it is empty performance, and doing it for praise rather than truth reveals
• Abhanga 3676 — Turning even an ordinary meal into mindful remembrance, free from ceremony and status games, is real devotion,
• Abhanga 3800 — Keep hollow, quarrelsome talkers who lack real faith away from you, and stand up fearlessly to those who mock

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