Mother / Family bond

Tukārām

• Abhanga 2425 — Surrender every part of your life completely to what you trust most, and let go of the rest as no longer your
• 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 2484 — Real devotion can include anger and demand, not just sweetness, because a devotee who truly loves God can push
• Abhanga 2540 — Even the smallest, most helpless creature that cries out to God in danger is sheltered and protected, because
• 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 4555 — A true encounter with God proves that plain, steady closeness to him outweighs any amount of status or strivin
• 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 2444 — Ask God for love as openly as a child asks a mother for milk, and be willing to drop your pretenses to get clo
• Abhanga 2446 — All scripture, the Vedas, the Puranas, and the Gita, points to one simple practice: speak God's name, so let g
• Abhanga 3098 — Tukaram makes Vitthal every relationship at once, mother, father, teacher, friend, and boat across the river o
• Abhanga 3434 — Love gives you the right to insist on closeness, so welcome what you cherish with real hospitality rather than
• Abhanga 3816 — A person's real priorities are revealed by contrast, in how generously they treat pleasure and status compared
• Abhanga 3829 — Pundalika's total devotion to serving his parents was so powerful that God himself stood waiting for ages, sho
• Abhanga 3884 — Tukaram sings the joy of finally reaching Pandharpur, calling it Vaikuntha itself, his true home where the end
• Abhanga 4062 — Real teaching means demonstrating with your own actions, matching the pace of the one you're guiding, and maki
• Abhanga 4080 — True trust removes fear of death and of others' opinions, turns hard effort into joyful play, and makes happin
• Abhanga 4198 — A real pilgrimage needs a mind actually free of household attachments, not just a body that walks as far as th
• Abhanga 4204 — Genuine devotion can hold affirmation and unknowing together at once, and it grows gradually until, like a lon
• Abhanga 4208 — The soul's longing for God is like a child's need for its mother, and God's care in response is just as instin
• Abhanga 4222 — A person ruled by attachment simply agrees to whatever a loved one's litany of complaints demands, instead of
• Abhanga 4223 — A man so ruled by attachment that he abandons his own family and judgment to please his wife has simply become

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