Bhakti

Tukārām

• Abhanga 2374 — Rather than scattering devotion among many lesser deities who demand offerings, Tukaram says to hold onto the
• Abhanga 2377 — This detailed meditation on Vitthal standing on a brick at Pandharpur, out of love for his devotee, shows that
• Abhanga 2387 — Accept whatever life brings with reverence, and place the burden on God rather than carrying it alone, because
• Abhanga 2402 — For today: happily take rebirths — IF among the Paṇḍharī-Vārkarīs ; Hari-dāsas' company is prema-rest; this mi
• Abhanga 2425 — Surrender every part of your life completely to what you trust most, and let go of the rest as no longer your
• 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 2449 — God is willing to do humble, ordinary tasks out of love for the devotees who cherish him, showing that no act
• Abhanga 2455 — For today: eyes fixed on form, mind stilled at feet; body-feeling lost ; sukha-duḥkha indistinguishable, thirs
• Abhanga 2459 — Liberation does not have to be earned through grueling effort or endless searching; it is freely given, so the
• Abhanga 2464 — For today: Pāṇḍuranga is sukha-rūpa ; no wandering, no shaving, no sādhana-pressure ; Chandrabhāgā bath = Hari
• Abhanga 2467 — What looks like your whole world, like a fig to the insect living inside it, is only a tiny piece of an unimag
• Abhanga 2471 — Treating trees, animals, and birds as kin turns solitude into good company, and a simple life under open sky b
• Abhanga 2474 — For today: salt in water — what separate? ; fire-camphor — no soot ; your-flame and my-flame are one .
• Abhanga 2477 — Like a child too absorbed in play to notice how tired he is, let go and trust the parent calling you home, bec
• Abhanga 2481 — Pandharpur surpasses even the greatest pilgrimage cities because people there set aside pride and bow to one a
• Abhanga 2484 — Real devotion can include anger and demand, not just sweetness, because a devotee who truly loves God can push
• Abhanga 2487 — There is a painful in-between stage where you belong neither to your old worldly life nor to the new spiritual
• Abhanga 2490 — The divine is most reachable through the living presence of a true saint, not through a distant, formless idea
• Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and death.
• Abhanga 2540 — Even the smallest, most helpless creature that cries out to God in danger is sheltered and protected, because
• Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with the support of a gu
• Abhanga 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-centered craving must be c
• Abhanga 4483 — Tukaram tells of the gopis whose all-consuming secret longing for Krishna, hidden beneath ordinary household l
• Abhanga 4495 — Tukaram tells how Krishna's mother and the cowherd families, absorbed in their own practical hopes and interes
• Abhanga 4497 — Tukaram describes a life so soaked in devotion that Krishna's presence fills every ordinary moment, coming hom

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