संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Death & Mortality

What the five voices say — 323 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2481 — Pandharpur surpasses even the greatest pilgrimage cities because people there set aside pride and bow to one a
  • Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and death.
  • Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with the support of a gu
  • Abhanga 2497 — For today: no travel-expense, body-mocked; daily Rāma Rāma — all say ; mouth without Rāma = self-killer .
  • Abhanga 2570 — Death is a constant companion for every being, and only when the mind turns away from the illusion of permanen
  • Abhanga 3073 — Since old age strips away the body's dignity anyway, stop clinging to worldly business and use whatever time r
  • Abhanga 3816 — A person's real priorities are revealed by contrast, in how generously they treat pleasure and status compared
  • Abhanga 3823 — No wealth, food, or comfort accompanies you at death, so forgetting to remember God while chasing them makes a
  • Abhanga 4004 — Old age strips away strength and mobility, leaving the body as fragile as burnt cloth, and it is possible to f
  • Abhanga 4072 — Tukaram asks for nothing but nearness to good people, willing to become dust, sandal, or stray dog just to sta
  • Abhanga 4080 — True trust removes fear of death and of others' opinions, turns hard effort into joyful play, and makes happin
  • Abhanga 4283 — Pundalik's complete, single-minded devotion to serving his elderly parents was itself such pure worship that i
  • Abhanga 4438 — Old age arrives with brutal physical decline, so turn your mind toward what matters most now, before decline m
  • Abhanga 4443 — At the end of everything, what matters most isn't achievement or even a spiritual reward, but simply dying wit
  • Abhanga 4465 — Nothing purifies or steadies you like God's Name, everything else in life behaves like a thief stealing your t
  • Abhanga 4480 — Tukaram voices the full rawness of feeling abandoned by God, using the shocking image of a discarded fetus, sh
  • Abhanga 2339 — For today: my death itself has died — made me immortal; the place wiped, the base wiped — deha-bhāva desolate;
  • Abhanga 2351 — Wherever the Name is truly sung and remembered, devotees are so protected and honored that even death is told
  • Abhanga 2463 — You can honestly complain that devotion hasn't transformed you as promised, and still trust the Name completel
  • Abhanga 2498 — Do not build your life on what will sink or burn you, and do not wait until death is at the door to think it t
  • Abhanga 2534 — When you are truly weary of worldly life, ask directly for God's embrace to face mortality; staying anchored t
  • Abhanga 2551 — Aware that death follows close behind, call on the divine as a compassionate mother who will come to you at th
  • Abhanga 2569 — For today: birth-death is our inheritance — if you remove it, you're great ; stand up for the true-false debat
  • Abhanga 3215 — Simply singing of the divine, without elaborate rituals, can wash over a whole life, ease the fear of mortalit
  • Abhanga 3270 — Attacking someone far greater than you only exhausts or destroys yourself, and those who trouble genuine saint

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 9 — Ramdas opens the samasa on death (mrityu-nirupana) by naming samsara, worldly existence, as a companion that r
  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 10 — Ramdas opens this samasa on death with an invocation and a paradox: through maya's confusion, the false is tak
  • Dashak 9 · Samāsa 8 — This samāsa opens with the question left dangling at the end of the previous one: the jñātā (knower) is releas
  • Dashak 10 · Samāsa 5 — Ramdas opens with the taxonomy: within the piṇḍa (the individual body), two things count as pralaya (dissoluti
  • Dashak 17 · Samāsa 6 — Rāmdās opens this samāsa noting that the embodied self experiences pleasure and pain throughout life, then dep

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