संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Pleasure & Pain

What the five voices say — 183 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2387
  • Abhanga 3073 — Mhātārapaṇī theṭe paḍase khōkalā — in old-age, fierce paḍase-khōkalā; hāta kapāḷālā lāvunī baise — (he) sits w
  • Abhanga 2388
  • Abhanga 3111 — Tukārām's sādhaka-discipline. Do not develop indulgence toward food-and-sleep; one becomes alert by-(this-disc
  • Abhanga 3114 — Tukārām's līlā-claim. For (the bhakti of) you — mūḍha, chatura, paṇḍita — all become mad. But the secret is no
  • Abhanga 3215 — Tukārām's democratization: Hari-bhajan-itself whitewashes-life; the-Hari-singer doesn't-know-suffering.
  • Abhanga 3894 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, if svāmī samkaṭa no prema sukha for me, won't pain your chitta Nārāyaṇa — won't ask anyt
  • Abhanga 4434 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, kōraḍī gōṣṭī no mana pleasure — no Brahma jñāna craving, show sundara saguṇa rūpaḍē —
  • Abhanga 9 — English: This abhang is the verse for the moment after a real life-direction choice. Most spiritual writing is
  • Abhanga 14 — The economy is plain: brief intense suffering once, in exchange for unfailing rest forever. The alternative —
  • Abhanga 23 — When both sides have rejected you, the work is not to find a third side. It is to receive what comes (your pra
  • 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 48 — If they abuse you and if they worship you, the same response: neither this nor that. You are separate from bot
  • Abhanga 64 — English: For fragrance, don't crush the flower.
  • Abhanga 108 — Whoever obstructs Narayana — even mother and father — is to be set aside. Prahlad set aside his father, Bibhis
  • Abhanga 133 — This abhang is deeply uncomfortable because it does not promise reward for devotion. Tukaram is naming the his
  • Abhanga 146 — English: By living close, we have come to know things as they are — there is no other in Kanha's heart.
  • Abhanga 191 — In your company — our certainty has come. We hadn't seen — fields like these, joys, pleasure-celebrations. At
  • Abhanga 192 — This abhang names a replacement-mechanism for kāmā / craving / addiction / compulsive-desire that is rare and
  • Abhanga 218 — This short abhang names three distinctions:
  • Abhanga 230 — This is a difficult-but-important abhang. Three claims:
  • Abhanga 239 — This abhang names a recognition-while-present discipline:
  • Abhanga 246 — This abhang names a sharp warning about analytical-criticism toward saints / real-presences:
  • Abhanga 336 — This abhang names the dream-as-vēṭhī frame:
  • Abhanga 409 — English: Came running-running — bhēṭi will happen, thinking — vēḷa has passed — my śiṇa remained.

…and 74 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 5 — He went abroad; attached himself to business; with his own life he bore many sufferings.

Jñāneśvarī

…and 54 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra