संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Contentment & Enough

What the five voices say — 130 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2421 — English: Even if I take ātmā as proof — the mind isn't still — what to do.
  • Abhanga 2566
  • Abhanga 4110 — Your-kīrti — won't-fit-brahmāṇḍa.
  • Abhanga 2376 — English: When mother lets-go — where to go by force — one's own strength is not enough.
  • Abhanga 2452
  • Abhanga 2508 — English: Enough goods for many — wealth came home.
  • Abhanga 3697 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, even if vōkhaṭa revulsed with deha enough same jōḍī again, how much mara mara bear more
  • Abhanga 3714 — Attached-to-pāya — how-vēgaḷā.
  • Abhanga 6 — The mark of the real one is that comparison stops working — 'he is not like the others' is the felt sign that
  • Abhanga 13 — The strength a bhakta wields is not their own. It is borrowed from the strongest, by being beloved of the stro
  • Abhanga 15 — After the leave-taking, what arrives is not loneliness. It is a solitude with one companion — the only compani
  • Abhanga 32 — If the voice is unsweet, it doesn't matter. The deity is hungry for the calling, not the music.
  • Abhanga 34 — When you meet someone who is awake to their own benefit, the right move is gratitude toward the parents who ra
  • Abhanga 35 — What is given to God is the inner sweetness. Wealth-displays don't cross the threshold; feeling does.
  • Abhanga 38 — English: This abhang is for the moment when the practice you've been attempting feels too hard — too elaborate
  • Abhanga 58 — English: This abhang is for the moment when you keep finding yourself in conversations or relationships where
  • Abhanga 60 — When you have nothing the thief wants, the thief runs from your door. Voluntary poverty is the house that can'
  • Abhanga 63 — English: This abhang names a structure most people work backwards from. We try to fix the substances — change
  • Abhanga 91 — English: Scorched by samsara's heat, O God — doing the family's service.
  • Abhanga 92 — This abhang is for the moment when you half-believe the bhakti tradition's claim that the deity will respond b
  • Abhanga 165 — Come with me, all of you — fall in line right behind me. Today I'll give you food till you say 'enough'. Walk
  • Abhanga 171 — This abhang names the rūdī-sulk moment in real bhakti / real practice / real love. After enough rounds, you fi
  • Abhanga 182 — This abhang names the gratitude-register for the saint — and it is not a fully-payable debt. Three principles:
  • Abhanga 190 — This abhang names a threshold-crossing moment in any deep-bhakti / deep-love / deep-engagement. After enough f
  • Abhanga 210 — This abhang is a gopa-band manual — for any group-of-comrades engaged in real shared-practice / community-life

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 12 · Samāsa 10 — Eat enough for oneself; distribute the leftover food. / But to waste it — is not dharma.

Jñāneśvarī

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Aṣṭāvakra

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