संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Fear & Worry

What the five voices say — 138 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2456
  • Abhanga 3090 — Tukārām's Durvāsa-Bali 3. Bali says: today, Durvāsa-svāmī — do not ask Nārāyaṇa from me. I got Śrīhari with mu
  • Abhanga 3460 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, I'm not afraid come to call you close, by sattā balē ask for bhōjana having done chinta
  • Abhanga 4575 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, no anxiety anyone — Lord rules Dvārakā, duṣṭa samhāra dharma pāḷī, pāḷī veda ājñā brā
  • Abhanga 1 — Attention rests where it wants to. The whole spiritual life turns on what you ask it to settle on.
  • Abhanga 3 — Ask for love itself, not for the benefits of love. The benefits look small once love is present; the absence o
  • Abhanga 9 — English: This abhang is the verse for the moment after a real life-direction choice. Most spiritual writing is
  • Abhanga 52 — When the I-ness is auctioned off, what inhabits the body is Pandurang. The body is not lost; it is repopulated
  • Abhanga 60 — When you have nothing the thief wants, the thief runs from your door. Voluntary poverty is the house that can'
  • Abhanga 72 — The bhakta's compassion includes anxiety for those not on the path. This abhang is permission to worry about t
  • Abhanga 91 — English: Scorched by samsara's heat, O God — doing the family's service.
  • Abhanga 120 — Two structural lessons. (1) Read the teacher's life, not the teacher's words. The thief's syllabus is theft; t
  • Abhanga 166 — This abhang names the equity-property of real grace. If you have been worried that the bhakti-economy is unfai
  • Abhanga 189 — This abhang names three precise mechanics:
  • Abhanga 209 — This abhang names post-rescue access-rules:
  • Abhanga 217 — This abhang names a band-coordination protocol:
  • Abhanga 279 — This abhang names the right-shape of asking-petition:
  • Abhanga 295 — This abhang gives the complete-bhakta-ontology in five claims:
  • Abhanga 323 — This abhang names a precise prevention-petition:
  • Abhanga 346 — This abhang names the householder-bhakti rule:
  • Abhanga 370 — English: I placed the bhāra — stayed in niścaya.
  • Abhanga 425 — English: Timira thickened — grows prabaḷa — I am afraid, deva — what fruit of becoming?
  • Abhanga 512 — English: Made kaṭa-kaṭa — singing-dancing without knowing.
  • Abhanga 559 — English: Not afraid — own maraṇa — jana duḥkhī — can't see.
  • Abhanga 619 — English: Will I attain uddhāra?

…and 78 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 13 · Samāsa 9 — By the body-yoga, Ātman has to bear agitation and worry. / By body-yoga, Ātman lives — this is clearly so.

Jñāneśvarī

…and 3 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra

Teachings

  • Where Attention Rests — There is a question hiding under most spiritual questions, and it is embarrassingly simple: where does your at