संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Grief & Loss

What the five voices say — 81 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 4222 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, opening of 17 verse household strife comic satire cluster 4222 4223, bhāryā 9 verse li
  • Abhanga 3012 — Mājhyā bhāve kelī jōḍī — by (my) bhāva (brother — = Tukārām) — (the) jōḍī (joining, connection) made; na sares
  • Abhanga 4003 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, rare autobiographical anti in laws grievance, wife's relatives distanced from mangaḷa,
  • Abhanga 116 — This abhang offers a self-diagnostic and an other-diagnostic. Self: when you find yourself emoting in a spirit
  • Abhanga 192 — This abhang names a replacement-mechanism for kāmā / craving / addiction / compulsive-desire that is rare and
  • Abhanga 236 — English: Hari comes kākulatī — chosen for a moment.
  • Abhanga 238 — This abhang names a common bhakti-failure-mode:
  • Abhanga 266 — This abhang names a mother-bhāva mechanic for the deity-bhakta relation:
  • Abhanga 676 — English: Viṭhṭhal rē — You are udāra-rāva — Viṭhṭhal, You are the jīva of this jagat.
  • Abhanga 1330 — For today: vairāgya happens through losses (parents, wife, dhana, māna); through sustained bhakti (Ekādaśī-kīr
  • Abhanga 1501 — For today: Hari, you sit in formless shelter while we have eyes-ears that witness everything; we can't bear he
  • Abhanga 1572 — For today: crown on head, earrings in ears spread radiance; red lips with diamond-teeth shine neatly; jaya Cat
  • Abhanga 1907 — For today: give the eyes a meeting — don't hold hesitation — won't lay any expense on you; what dharma is it t
  • Abhanga 2107 — For today: for duḥkha-exchange, sukha is found there — the anātha's hunger and dainya go; the prince of the ge
  • Abhanga 2128 — For today: let no one hold — anger of the words in mind; here is many's hita — purify and keep in chitta; we h
  • Abhanga 2221 — For today: not my concern for myself — some grief has come; preservation of your Name — not being, great fatig
  • Abhanga 2254 — For today: master's-task, guru-bhakti — father's-word, service-to-husband — these are Viṣṇu's mahā-pūjā — no o
  • Abhanga 2588 — Life is a fleeting spectacle of sense-objects; before utpatti-and-pralaya consume what little remains, ask you
  • Abhanga 2592 — When, Nārāyaṇa, will it come to your mind to accept me? Take up all my burden. The mind tosses in samsāra, loo
  • Abhanga 2911 — Hārapalyāñcī nakā chitti — (for) the lost (things) — don't (hold) in chitta; dharūm khaṇṭi vāmyām cha — hold k
  • Abhanga 2980 — Charaphaḍe charaphaḍa śōke śōka hōye — strife on strife — grief on grief becomes; kārya-mūla āhe dhīrā-pāśī —
  • Abhanga 2995 — Kānhōbā's extreme-grief. What can I say, Hrṣīkeśa — such remorse has come — wanting to swallow (you) in an ins
  • Abhanga 3007 — Jana-lōka pārikhē — the jana-lōka (people, community) have become pārikhē (strangers, distant); avaghe kele my
  • Abhanga 3174 — There is a point past which retreat is itself defeat. When you have begun a worthwhile path, the body must be
  • Abhanga 3185 — There are seasons when the Lord seems to withdraw. The bhakta's response is not detachment — it is protest. Do

…and 5 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 1 — [Dashak 3 'Sva-guṇa-parīkṣā' — Samāsa 1 'Janma-duḥkha Nirūpaṇa' — the sorrow of birth.] Birth is the sprout of

Jñāneśvarī

…and 22 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