संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Fear & Worry

What the five voices say — 436 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2540 — Even the smallest, most helpless creature that cries out to God in danger is sheltered and protected, because
  • Abhanga 4497 — Tukaram describes a life so soaked in devotion that Krishna's presence fills every ordinary moment, coming hom
  • Abhanga 4581 — Tukaram closes his songs by confessing his own unworthiness and boldness, offering everything back to God, and
  • Abhanga 2369 — For today: jīva lives in jīvana — fish dies in separation; as is the bhāva — so is the Dēva ; sun gives light
  • Abhanga 2401 — When liberation already feels secure, the only thing left to want is the sweetness of loving devotion itself,
  • Abhanga 2497 — For today: no travel-expense, body-mocked; daily Rāma Rāma — all say ; mouth without Rāma = self-killer .
  • Abhanga 2507 — Surrendering life's whole burden to God settles a restless, anxious mind into deep peace and quietly dissolves
  • Abhanga 2577 — In deep union with the divine, separateness dissolves completely, like water becoming sky, and even beginnings
  • Abhanga 2583 — In deep longing, it is alright to call out urgently and repeatedly for comfort, asking to be embraced right aw
  • Abhanga 3631 — After real cost and effort, hold firmly to what you have gained, drop laziness and forgetfulness and worry abo
  • Abhanga 3735 — God fills the universe, the world, and every ordinary person alike, and once you truly see that, you can move
  • Abhanga 3871 — Sit in worry-free devotion to one Lord alone, let go of every other ritual and any sense of ownership, and use
  • Abhanga 3904 — Tukaram says a devotee of Hari has nothing to fear or worry about, since God removes suffering and stays close
  • Abhanga 3913 — Tukaram teaches that the body, the mind's sense of I-ness, and even a tree's stirring leaves all move by God's
  • 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 4118 — When you fully surrender your whole self, the usual anxieties about gain and loss, right and wrong, self and o
  • Abhanga 4181 — A firm, unwavering resolve in devotion, not cleverness or understanding, is what makes someone truly close to
  • Abhanga 4198 — A real pilgrimage needs a mind actually free of household attachments, not just a body that walks as far as th
  • Abhanga 4219 — One of the cowherds describes the terror they felt watching Krishna open his mouth wide and swallow the raging
  • Abhanga 4240 — Sustained devotion and constant remembrance of God can settle the heart so deeply that a person is no longer w
  • Abhanga 4247 — Let go of clinging to the outer form of life to taste the sweetness within it, and once devotion has changed y
  • Abhanga 4267 — Only a deeper support beyond yourself can cut through anxiety, craving, and the fear of what others think, and
  • Abhanga 4359 — Feeling as lost and grief-stricken as a stray fawn, ask that all your faults be absorbed and that you never be
  • Abhanga 4377 — When you are stranded with no way back and no safe way forward, let your mind rest on the presence that lives

…and 376 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 13 · Samāsa 9 — The samāsa opens by directly answering the previous question: because Ātman is joined to a body, deha-yoga, it

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