संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Letting Go & Surrender

What the five voices say — 234 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2425
  • Abhanga 4296 — Bhakti-rṇa-taken — charaṇa-gāhāṇa.
  • Abhanga 2407 — English: Fear in our heart — sorrow doesn't dwell.
  • Abhanga 3753 — Ātām yeṇe paḍipāḍe — rasa sevūm hā nivāḍe — now in this paḍipāḍa — taste the rasa with nivāḍa; mumgī nelī gōḍe
  • Abhanga 4017 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, prema in hrdaya āvaḍī — won't let go charaṇa, chātaka chinta removed by jaḷadhara — do
  • Abhanga 4063 — Janma-janma-sangati — bhēṭi-akasmāt.
  • Abhanga 4325 — V1: ḍhāla-talavāre gumtale he kara, mhaṇe jumjhaṇāra kaisā jumjhe — shield-sword entangled the hands; the warr
  • Abhanga 11 — Once you have left, the next discipline is becoming deaf to the people who keep calling you back.
  • Abhanga 16 — English: We will enjoy all happiness at all times; we have cut the net of attachment-bonds.
  • Abhanga 21 — Half-renunciation is the worst position. You lose what you left and you don't reach what you were going to.
  • Abhanga 22 — After a long innocent stretch, things become uncontainable. The discipline shifts from holding-back to letting
  • 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 43 — If you actually believe the deity has charge of your karma, then you do not have to carry it. If you are still
  • Abhanga 44 — English: This abhang inverts a modern assumption. We are taught that supply comes from effort, extraction, lev
  • 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 54 — English: This abhang names a structural error most modern self-help inverts. We are taught to claim — claim ou
  • Abhanga 65 — English: This abhang offers a precise instruction for the persistent illusions or obstacles in your life — the
  • Abhanga 78 — If you don't know singing, raga, timing — lay the burden on Pandurang. The mind kept at his feet is the practi
  • Abhanga 109 — This abhang names a precise inner gesture: honor and dishonor — roll them up. Most spiritual instruction says
  • Abhanga 140 — English: Even now, why aren't you steady, kid?
  • Abhanga 151 — This abhang names the moment when the real arrives and the previous claimant on your attention is suddenly exp
  • Abhanga 174 — English: Setting the jīva-Śiva rounds; aham and soham — both falter well.
  • Abhanga 192 — This abhang names a replacement-mechanism for kāmā / craving / addiction / compulsive-desire that is rare and
  • Abhanga 242 — This abhang names what kind of deity calls for what kind of surrender:
  • Abhanga 270 — This abhang names a recurring social-corruption — show-without-substance ceremonies:

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 2 — Samsāra itself is the root of sorrow; embers of sorrow cling to it; earlier was told the torment of the womb-d
  • Dashak 5 · Samāsa 8 — By samsāra-intoxication's quality, many low inauspicious-marks; by whose face-sight sin clings.

Jñāneśvarī

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