संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Death & Mortality

What the five voices say — 240 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2570
  • Abhanga 4465 — Name-pāvana-pāvana — most-pavitra.
  • Abhanga 4480 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, mother abandoned fetus in disgust — no clean bhūmi arranged, uṣṇa tāna bhūka akānti —
  • Abhanga 2339
  • Abhanga 2569
  • Abhanga 3270 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, anti khaḷa polemic, dog barks at elephant exhausted, mosquito troubles itself, goat bel
  • Abhanga 3274 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, canonical death time petition, Keśīrāja this vinavaṇī, mastaka at charaṇa, deha anywher
  • Abhanga 3412 — Companions-leaving — what-niścintī.
  • Abhanga 3464 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, gave jīva bhāva abandoned my ṭhāva, your sattā prevails here in all Anantā, by my dying
  • Abhanga 3490 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, at one time emptied the kalivara installed Pāṇḍuranga, care and feeding became his task
  • Abhanga 3545 — Tukārām's anti-non-bhajaka warning. Why do you not bhajan Hari? — who will accept you? There will be yama-purī
  • Abhanga 3747 — V1: When will I see that day with eyes — (the day) of kalyāṇa-mangaḷa-amangaḷa V2 (dhrva): At end of āyuṣya, b
  • Abhanga 3897 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, fish swallows bait hook throat bursts death arrives, at death taḷamaḷa remembers krpāḷ
  • Abhanga 4011 — Ōlē-mātī-don't-trust.
  • Abhanga 24 — Until the small self dies once, the actions you take are still organized by self-protection. Once it has died,
  • Abhanga 42 — Time runs out for nothing. The people you are most entangled with are the ones who will let go at the end. Cal
  • Abhanga 47 — When hope has been let go, fear of death goes with it. The body can fall anywhere, climb the gallows even. Hon
  • Abhanga 86 — English: You befriend the mighty — they don't come to use at the end.
  • Abhanga 121 — This abhang names a precise category of bad counsel: counsel that is structurally not-wrong but catastrophical
  • Abhanga 155 — This abhang names the take-the-weight dimension of real engagement. The deity (or any genuine teacher / belove
  • Abhanga 210 — This abhang is a gopa-band manual — for any group-of-comrades engaged in real shared-practice / community-life
  • Abhanga 248 — This abhang names three reversals you should hold in mind:
  • Abhanga 478 — English: To do Your dāsya — beg from others for khāvayā — dhig — jiṇē of mine — Pandharī-rāyā.
  • Abhanga 537 — English: Speaking — abōlaṇē — by dying — jīṇē — being-yet asaṇē — among jana.
  • Abhanga 559 — English: Not afraid — own maraṇa — jana duḥkhī — can't see.

…and 89 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 9 — Samsāra is a rider by one's side; there is no credit for death; the body is measured moment by moment.
  • Dashak 10 · Samāsa 5 — Hear the mark of pralaya — in the piṇḍa, know two pralayas; / one [is] sleep, one [is] death — at deha-anta-ti

Jñāneśvarī

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Aṣṭāvakra

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