संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Attention & Distraction

What the five voices say — 65 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 1 — Attention rests where it wants to. The whole spiritual life turns on what you ask it to settle on.
  • Abhanga 2 — When the mind has too many images, give it one to come home to.
  • Abhanga 4 — Beauty seen and not yet possessed is the position devotion is built from. The longing is not the obstacle; it
  • Abhanga 37 — English: This abhang is for the moment when you find that the philosophical question — is reality one or many,
  • Abhanga 69 — The hope-bound mind cannot know Narayana. It serves the senses, watches its own desire-jealousies, babbles con
  • Abhanga 82 — This abhang is a sharp diagnostic: when your speech feels full but isn't producing, check for tears and pang.
  • Abhanga 112 — This abhang gives a diagnostic for distinguishing real-non-duality from intellectual-non-duality. The signs ar
  • Abhanga 151 — This abhang names the moment when the real arrives and the previous claimant on your attention is suddenly exp
  • Abhanga 155 — This abhang names the take-the-weight dimension of real engagement. The deity (or any genuine teacher / belove
  • Abhanga 174 — English: Setting the jīva-Śiva rounds; aham and soham — both falter well.
  • Abhanga 378 — English: Set thing — forgotten in hand — don't know what Hari has occupied in citta.
  • Abhanga 390 — English: Hari — Your kāmti is sāmvaḷī — I am gōrī cāmpē-kaḷī — with Your darśana I will become kāḷī — people w
  • Abhanga 667 — English: One request, Hṛṣīkēśī — give attention to my spoken word — let no antara (distance) fall from Your ca
  • Abhanga 1085 — English: Sāngōm — dubaḷē — manā.
  • Abhanga 1396 — For today: saints' rebuke marks life amangaḷa but strips the worst; without Hari-the-bhartāra, kuḷa-rūpa-samsā
  • Abhanga 1459 — For today: I'm not a quarrelsome arguer for opinion's sake — satya's authority is the instruction; with witnes
  • Abhanga 1669 — For today: we have grasped your cloth-edge — no servant of yours has gone in vain; hey, you who stand on the b
  • Abhanga 2280 — For today: if the cock doesn't crow — doesn't it dawn — fool shows ego; ready things — free share — distractio
  • Abhanga 2620 — Who now will give Kālikāla strength-to-approach? Authority in the three worlds is Chakrapāṇi the protector. He
  • Abhanga 2636 — If you ever taste the state Tukārām describes — the worry of birth-and-death simply not present in attention;
  • Abhanga 2644 — The udāsīna (dispassionate) one's body is brahma-rūpa (brahma-form); puṇya-pāpa does not touch it.
  • Abhanga 2690 — To udvēga (anxiety) — many roads fākatī (spread out, fan out).
  • Abhanga 2700 — The one with eyes runs in fear — doesn't realize death is right alongside. What direction-wandering has happen
  • Abhanga 2701 — The thief's brand settles in his attention as a mark. What should we do — let the rain rain by its own rule. T
  • Abhanga 2732 — A useful gratitude-prayer for those who teach the way. The good-one tells his own self-welfare as he knows the

…and 8 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 6 — The signs of the three-fold affliction (tāpatraya) will now be expounded; listeners, listen with one-pointed a
  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 9 — Śrīrāma. Now how should śravaṇa be done? This too will be told naturally; listeners, give attention with one-p
  • Dashak 8 · Samāsa 7 — Earlier the listener's question was — in how many days does mokṣa happen? / That very topic, alert listeners,
  • Dashak 18 · Samāsa 10 — Attention to a certain work; somehow obstruction occurs; / if time permits, spontaneously — it happens.

Jñāneśvarī

…and 2 more in search.

Teachings

  • Where Attention Rests — There is a question hiding under most spiritual questions, and it is embarrassingly simple: where does your at