संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Contentment & Enough

What the five voices say — 472 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2464 — For today: Pāṇḍuranga is sukha-rūpa ; no wandering, no shaving, no sādhana-pressure ; Chandrabhāgā bath = Hari
  • Abhanga 2471 — Treating trees, animals, and birds as kin turns solitude into good company, and a simple life under open sky b
  • Abhanga 4546 — True recognition of what actually sustains you comes only after pride falls away, not before, and that humble
  • Abhanga 2421 — Reciting intellectual claims about the Self does not free the mind, real devotion and honest experience matter
  • Abhanga 2445 — When Gajendra the elephant king was abandoned even by his own kin, he remembered Panduranga, and the Lord left
  • Abhanga 2480 — Let people say what they will, because being cared for like a cherished child by a compassionate, all-giving d
  • Abhanga 2495 — Simply speaking the Name daily is a complete spiritual practice, easier than austerities and more valuable tha
  • Abhanga 2497 — For today: no travel-expense, body-mocked; daily Rāma Rāma — all say ; mouth without Rāma = self-killer .
  • Abhanga 2557 — For today: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine .
  • Abhanga 2566 — One sincere, unwavering commitment of the heart is enough to draw the divine's embrace, and once tied with you
  • Abhanga 3044 — Looking back at how God has rescued devotees again and again throughout history is reason enough not to fear h
  • Abhanga 3066 — Tukārām calls Jñāneśvar his mother and father, showing that honoring the teacher and lineage who shaped you is
  • Abhanga 3804 — Tukaram points to the two great Vārkarī pilgrimage seasons, the Ashadhi gathering and the Kartiki gathering at
  • Abhanga 3827 — God stands always watching and waiting for his devotees, arms perpetually raised in welcome, like a father who
  • Abhanga 3877 — Even a baby frog's cry of Rama-Rama while trapped in boiling water is enough to move God to intervene, showing
  • Abhanga 3904 — Tukaram says a devotee of Hari has nothing to fear or worry about, since God removes suffering and stays close
  • Abhanga 3992 — Sincere, wholehearted love has real pull, and a small offering given fully matters more than a grand one given
  • Abhanga 4068 — Sacred practice like kirtana should never be monetized or used for self-honor, because true devotion means alr
  • Abhanga 4110 — The divine's greatness is too vast to ever fully describe or repay, and true gratitude leads not to complaint
  • Abhanga 4130 — Meeting truly good people after a long search can dissolve years of confusion and sorrow in an instant, leavin
  • Abhanga 4213 — Real power, when it finally reveals itself, is overwhelming enough to frighten even the truest devotee, and ad
  • Abhanga 4214 — Whatever danger seems large enough to consume you can be swallowed entirely, and real joy follows once that th
  • Abhanga 4216 — Real love lets you ask direct, curious questions about someone's astonishing power, because trust and wonder c
  • Abhanga 4217 — God is understood not through knowledge or ritual but through simple, loving devotion, the kind that turns to
  • Abhanga 4247 — Let go of clinging to the outer form of life to taste the sweetness within it, and once devotion has changed y

…and 412 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 8 · Samāsa 1 — Ramdas opens the eighth dashak, on the vision of God, with a formal invitation to listen closely: what follows
  • Dashak 14 · Samāsa 1 — Rāmdās opens Dashak 14 with an invitation: hear the niṣpṛha's (the desireless one's) teaching — the practical

Jñāneśvarī

…and 1 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra