संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Pleasure & Pain

What the five voices say — 354 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2387 — Accept whatever life brings with reverence, and place the burden on God rather than carrying it alone, because
  • Abhanga 2455 — For today: eyes fixed on form, mind stilled at feet; body-feeling lost ; sukha-duḥkha indistinguishable, thirs
  • Abhanga 2450 — A love so complete that it fills the eyes and heart makes everything else in ordinary life feel less sweet by
  • Abhanga 3073 — Since old age strips away the body's dignity anyway, stop clinging to worldly business and use whatever time r
  • Abhanga 3816 — A person's real priorities are revealed by contrast, in how generously they treat pleasure and status compared
  • Abhanga 3904 — Tukaram says a devotee of Hari has nothing to fear or worry about, since God removes suffering and stays close
  • Abhanga 4386 — It is better to lose a sense entirely than let it lead you into sin, and true devotion means wanting your eyes
  • Abhanga 4480 — Tukaram voices the full rawness of feeling abandoned by God, using the shocking image of a discarded fetus, sh
  • Abhanga 4543 — The truly compassionate one clears trouble before it reaches you and does the real work quietly, without needi
  • Abhanga 4570 — Keeping God, or whatever truly matters, at the center of your body, mind, and speech can dissolve past sufferi
  • Abhanga 2316 — Freedom is not a gift handed to you from outside; it grows from mastering your own cravings, and the real frui
  • Abhanga 2388 — Your troubles come from your own past actions, not from others, so stay calm, keep saying Gōvinda's name, and
  • Abhanga 2391 — For today: no ornament without heating; enemies become friends through destruction; let the body bear bhoga; m
  • Abhanga 2405 — Much suffering is self-inflicted like a scorpion's own sting, so examine your mind honestly since it acts as b
  • Abhanga 2428 — Even a devotee's bold complaint to God, arguing that suffering reflects badly on the Lord, must end in humble
  • Abhanga 2454 — Holding the divine feet in your heart eases every kind of suffering, and quiet, unclaimed service eventually e
  • Abhanga 2500 — For today: you know our garbha-vāsa ; separating-and-attaching is the Lord's kavatuka-game .
  • Abhanga 2559 — Once you stand face to face with the divine, old attachments to worldly pleasure fall away and a steady, unfai
  • Abhanga 2572 — Once what is truly yours settles into your hands and old suffering has broken, there is no need to keep carryi
  • Abhanga 3057 — A person who eagerly seeks out shallow pleasures while treating prayer and true guidance as a burden is like a
  • Abhanga 3111 — Real spiritual discipline is simple: don't overindulge food and sleep, speak in measure, know your own peace,
  • Abhanga 3113 — Tukaram teaches that true purity isn't ritual cleanliness but equanimity, letting go of mine and yours and tre
  • Abhanga 3129 — Wealth cannot protect anyone from suffering, the workings of fate stay unknowable and rest in God's hand, and
  • Abhanga 3215 — Simply singing of the divine, without elaborate rituals, can wash over a whole life, ease the fear of mortalit
  • Abhanga 3396 — Chasing final liberation while giving up the everyday joy of love and devotion misses the point, staying in th

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 1 — Rāmdās opens the samāsa, titled janma-duḥkha nirūpaṇa ('exposition of the sorrow of birth'), by stacking four
  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 7 — Having described the ādhyātmika (afflictions rooted in one's own body and mind), Rāmdās turns to ādhibhautika
  • Dashak 11 · Samāsa 10 — Ramdas opens by contrasting the fool, who stays confined to a single narrow view, with the wise person (catura
  • Dashak 17 · Samāsa 6 — Rāmdās opens this samāsa noting that the embodied self experiences pleasure and pain throughout life, then dep

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