संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Attention & Distraction

What the five voices say — 319 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2374 — Rather than scattering devotion among many lesser deities who demand offerings, Tukaram says to hold onto the
  • Abhanga 2448 — The easiest path to God is repeating divine names with love at home, right where you are, with no need for ren
  • Abhanga 2455 — For today: eyes fixed on form, mind stilled at feet; body-feeling lost ; sukha-duḥkha indistinguishable, thirs
  • Abhanga 4483 — Tukaram tells of the gopis whose all-consuming secret longing for Krishna, hidden beneath ordinary household l
  • Abhanga 2421 — Reciting intellectual claims about the Self does not free the mind, real devotion and honest experience matter
  • Abhanga 2520 — For today: let unbroken samādhi happen — drown in prema-bōdhi .
  • Abhanga 2567 — Worldly entanglement never really touches the divine; a restless mind is what harms you, so stay fixed in surr
  • Abhanga 3434 — Love gives you the right to insist on closeness, so welcome what you cherish with real hospitality rather than
  • Abhanga 4125 — Stay alert like a watchman guarding against thieves, because only those who remain watchful, especially throug
  • Abhanga 4225 — Once you subtract childhood ignorance, years lost to desire, years lost to attachment, and years lost to daily
  • Abhanga 4259 — People often stay wide awake for idle distraction while dozing through what is truly nourishing, and naming th
  • Abhanga 4273 — If your time, money, and attention flow easily to everything except God and genuine goodness while spiritual p
  • Abhanga 4293 — Just as a water-carrier's mind never leaves her pots and a thief's mind never leaves his loot, you can do any
  • Abhanga 4465 — Nothing purifies or steadies you like God's Name, everything else in life behaves like a thief stealing your t
  • Abhanga 4570 — Keeping God, or whatever truly matters, at the center of your body, mind, and speech can dissolve past sufferi
  • Abhanga 4572 — Even a peaceful, blessed season of life may need to be rebuilt elsewhere when new threats arise, and that rebu
  • Abhanga 2332 — For today: people of many fads — don't share mind with them; preserve faith — rasa of fondness has come; Hari-
  • Abhanga 2346 — Approach sacred gatherings with humility and full presence, not laziness or pride, and offer yourself so compl
  • Abhanga 2350 — Kirtana sung with full, fierce energy burns away wrongdoing and obstacles, so devotion should be taken up bold
  • Abhanga 2353 — Real longing for God needs no justification, it simply runs toward him and asks, plainly, to be seen.
  • Abhanga 2394 — True inner gain never breaks and travels with you everywhere, so do not let outward appearances distract your
  • Abhanga 2522 — True commitment means refusing to back down until you get a response, putting determination first, and not let
  • Abhanga 2539 — For today: unshaken mind — dhyāna stood on the brick .
  • Abhanga 2585 — When longing is real, it is fair to ask directly for a quick response instead of more delay, because feelings
  • Abhanga 3041 — Hardship in a devotee's life may not be punishment but protection from the pride and distraction that comfort

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 6 — Rāmdās signals he is about to define the three-fold affliction (tāpatraya — threefold burning), and asks liste
  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 8 — Ramdas signals the transition in his three-part scheme of affliction (tapa): adhyatmika (self-generated), then
  • Dashak 4 · Samāsa 8 — Ramdas closes the seventh bhakti and announces the eighth — sakhya-bhakti, devotion as friendship with God — a
  • Dashak 4 · Samāsa 9 — Closing the eighth bhakti (sakhya) and opening the ninth, Ramdas asks full attention as ātma-nivedana, self-of
  • Dashak 5 · Samāsa 9 — Rāmdās marks the transition explicitly: the mumukṣu (one who desires liberation) was sketched only by hints in
  • Dashak 6 · Samāsa 1 — The samāsa's title is devaśodhana — 'investigation of God.' Rāmdās opens with a call to attention: settle the
  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 9 — Samasa 9 opens exactly where 8 left off: Ramdas now turns to the practical question of how hearing should be d
  • Dashak 12 · Samāsa 2 — Ramdas opens this samāsa addressing everyone caught up in saṃsāra — householders and renunciants (niṣpṛha) ali
  • Dashak 20 · Samāsa 3 — Ramdas signals a review: everything from the very root to the very end has now been laid out in various ways;

Jñāneśvarī

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Teachings

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