Mortality / Vairāgya

Tukārām

• Abhanga 2448 — The easiest path to God is repeating divine names with love at home, right where you are, with no need for ren
• Abhanga 2464 — For today: Pāṇḍuranga is sukha-rūpa ; no wandering, no shaving, no sādhana-pressure ; Chandrabhāgā bath = Hari
• Abhanga 2477 — Like a child too absorbed in play to notice how tired he is, let go and trust the parent calling you home, bec
• 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 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-centered craving must be c
• Abhanga 4495 — Tukaram tells how Krishna's mother and the cowherd families, absorbed in their own practical hopes and interes
• Abhanga 4497 — Tukaram describes a life so soaked in devotion that Krishna's presence fills every ordinary moment, coming hom
• Abhanga 4544 — Shelter and protection go to everyone equally, regardless of caste or background, based only on sincere devoti
• Abhanga 2383 — The Name is free for anyone to take, and taking it fully can free you from future rebirth without needing to t
• Abhanga 2421 — Reciting intellectual claims about the Self does not free the mind, real devotion and honest experience matter
• Abhanga 2497 — For today: no travel-expense, body-mocked; daily Rāma Rāma — all say ; mouth without Rāma = self-killer .
• Abhanga 2506 — When truth becomes scarce and faith turns into empty display, ritual performed without real feeling is just en
• Abhanga 2507 — Surrendering life's whole burden to God settles a restless, anxious mind into deep peace and quietly dissolves
• Abhanga 2560 — Only a full, wholehearted offering earns real treasure, because no one gives away a kingdom for the price of a
• 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 3401 — You do not need elaborate rituals or austerities, constant simple remembrance of the name among fellow devotee
• Abhanga 3730 — A place where true devotion is genuinely lived becomes blessed, protects itself from wrongdoing, and its devot
• Abhanga 3808 — Seize this joy of devotion boldly and without hesitation, because in that wholehearted surrender, the weight o
• 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 3891 — Reciting words with closed eyes but no real love is empty, Tukaram says, the true open mantra anyone can use i
• Abhanga 3900 — Because a human life is rare and precious and is spent either way, Tukaram urges us to treat devotion like sav

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