संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Nāma (the Name)

What the five voices say — 738 passages.

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 2467 — What looks like your whole world, like a fig to the insect living inside it, is only a tiny piece of an unimag
  • Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and death.
  • Abhanga 4448 — How you leave and what name you carry with you at your final departure matters as much as how you lived, so le
  • 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 4497 — Tukaram describes a life so soaked in devotion that Krishna's presence fills every ordinary moment, coming hom
  • Abhanga 4582 — The closing verse of the whole Gatha promises that reading it with reverence fulfills the heart's longing, and
  • Abhanga 2381 — For today: Name has no-price; just two letters — Rāma Rāma; no caste, no religion, no jāti — all included in t
  • 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 2399 — For today: this world is a temporary inn — udāsīna toward body; quickly cross to the next; drama-performance c
  • Abhanga 2401 — When liberation already feels secure, the only thing left to want is the sweetness of loving devotion itself,
  • Abhanga 2404 — Wisdom is not only knowing the right thing but knowing the right moment and place for it, since the wrong word
  • Abhanga 2417 — For today: ask in your own place, empty ahankāra; word-net is māyā; fruit-is-seed, seed-is-fruit ; all are whe
  • Abhanga 2421 — Reciting intellectual claims about the Self does not free the mind, real devotion and honest experience matter
  • Abhanga 2432 — For today: these are not my ornaments — Nārāyaṇa made them proper ; pearl-garlands of words — from the source-
  • Abhanga 2446 — All scripture, the Vedas, the Puranas, and the Gita, points to one simple practice: speak God's name, so let g
  • Abhanga 2458 — Seeing the divine in every person, holding peace and compassion in your own body, letting dispassion burn brig
  • Abhanga 2480 — Let people say what they will, because being cared for like a cherished child by a compassionate, all-giving d
  • Abhanga 2495 — Simply speaking the Name daily is a complete spiritual practice, easier than austerities and more valuable tha
  • Abhanga 2507 — Surrendering life's whole burden to God settles a restless, anxious mind into deep peace and quietly dissolves
  • Abhanga 2517 — Let go of grudges and envy, since they only harm you, and find real peace by keeping forgiveness alive within
  • Abhanga 2557 — For today: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine .
  • Abhanga 2567 — Worldly entanglement never really touches the divine; a restless mind is what harms you, so stay fixed in surr
  • Abhanga 3401 — You do not need elaborate rituals or austerities, constant simple remembrance of the name among fellow devotee

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