संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Practice & Seeking

What the five voices say — 654 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2377 — This detailed meditation on Vitthal standing on a brick at Pandharpur, out of love for his devotee, shows that
  • 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 2459 — Liberation does not have to be earned through grueling effort or endless searching; it is freely given, so the
  • 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 2474 — For today: salt in water — what separate? ; fire-camphor — no soot ; your-flame and my-flame are one .
  • Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and death.
  • Abhanga 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-centered craving must be c
  • Abhanga 4555 — A true encounter with God proves that plain, steady closeness to him outweighs any amount of status or strivin
  • 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 2401 — When liberation already feels secure, the only thing left to want is the sweetness of loving devotion itself,
  • Abhanga 2446 — All scripture, the Vedas, the Puranas, and the Gita, points to one simple practice: speak God's name, so let g
  • Abhanga 2468 — Knowledge of truth can come quickly, but the pride that clings to it lingers until someone else's test exposes
  • Abhanga 2469 — Closeness to God is naturally available; the whole of devoted practice comes down to steadily holding Viṭhoba'
  • Abhanga 2495 — Simply speaking the Name daily is a complete spiritual practice, easier than austerities and more valuable tha
  • Abhanga 2497 — For today: no travel-expense, body-mocked; daily Rāma Rāma — all say ; mouth without Rāma = self-killer .
  • Abhanga 3417 — Simple, heartfelt singing can bring you closer to the divine than years of rigid ritual, because sincerity and
  • Abhanga 3435 — You can tell God has truly entered a life by real changes, less pride, less craving, more honesty, and a growi
  • Abhanga 3631 — After real cost and effort, hold firmly to what you have gained, drop laziness and forgetfulness and worry abo
  • Abhanga 3730 — A place where true devotion is genuinely lived becomes blessed, protects itself from wrongdoing, and its devot
  • Abhanga 3743 — One sincere, simple practice like repeating God's Name can carry the weight of every traditional ritual and du
  • Abhanga 3804 — Tukaram points to the two great Vārkarī pilgrimage seasons, the Ashadhi gathering and the Kartiki gathering at
  • Abhanga 3820 — No method of knowing, whether study, meditation, vision, or scripture, can fully grasp the divine, so at some
  • Abhanga 3867 — Anything that scatters your focus away from your one true anchor, however clever or learned it sounds, ends up

…and 534 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 1 · Samāsa 9 — Rāmdās shifts from praising the assembly to praising paramārtha itself — the ultimate spiritual goal. He calls
  • Dashak 2 · Samāsa 4 — The samāsa opens by naming the stakes: the human body itself is the fruit of accumulated sukṛta (good deeds) a
  • Dashak 5 · Samāsa 9 — Rāmdās marks the transition explicitly: the mumukṣu (one who desires liberation) was sketched only by hints in
  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 3 — Opening the samāsa, Rāmdās asks listeners to be attentive and announces he will now teach brahma-jñāna (knowle
  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 8 — Ramdas opens the samasa's argument with a direct claim: hearing is the sadhana — the spiritual practice — that
  • Dashak 11 · Samāsa 5 — This verse marks a return to earlier ground: karma, dhyana, and inquiry, once undertaken, must be undertaken a
  • Dashak 11 · Samāsa 8 — Ramdas opens with an invocation: salute the sakalakarta, the all-doer who nourishes all the gods themselves, a
  • Dashak 20 · Samāsa 9 — Rāmdās opens with the ritual paradox of clay-image worship: the clay mūrti (image) is worshipped, then immedia
  • Dashak 20 · Samāsa 10 — The final samāsa opens with a paradox: try to grasp para-brahma (the Supreme Reality) and it cannot be held; t

Jñāneśvarī

…and 53 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra

Teachings

  • Work as Practice — There is a persistent rumor that the spiritual life begins where the working life ends — that the serious seek