संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Pride & Humility

What the five voices say — 386 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2377 — This detailed meditation on Vitthal standing on a brick at Pandharpur, out of love for his devotee, shows that
  • Abhanga 2449 — God is willing to do humble, ordinary tasks out of love for the devotees who cherish him, showing that no act
  • Abhanga 2481 — Pandharpur surpasses even the greatest pilgrimage cities because people there set aside pride and bow to one a
  • Abhanga 4546 — True recognition of what actually sustains you comes only after pride falls away, not before, and that humble
  • Abhanga 2468 — Knowledge of truth can come quickly, but the pride that clings to it lingers until someone else's test exposes
  • Abhanga 2507 — Surrendering life's whole burden to God settles a restless, anxious mind into deep peace and quietly dissolves
  • Abhanga 3071 — Childhood slips away unnoticed in play, and what follows is not automatic wisdom but youth arriving as the roo
  • Abhanga 3072 — Youthful arrogance that disrespects others and wastes time on vanity and lust squanders the very life it shoul
  • Abhanga 3435 — You can tell God has truly entered a life by real changes, less pride, less craving, more honesty, and a growi
  • Abhanga 3855 — Judge the actual quality of a thing or person, not the humble or unlikely place it came from.
  • Abhanga 4012 — In times of moral confusion, people twist spiritual ideas to excuse indulgence, but real steadiness comes from
  • Abhanga 4090 — A place and community of genuine devotion can transform even the most deluded or wicked person into someone co
  • Abhanga 4096 — The true worth of a person or a good thing does not depend on their origin or caste, but on their genuine qual
  • Abhanga 4110 — The divine's greatness is too vast to ever fully describe or repay, and true gratitude leads not to complaint
  • Abhanga 4185 — A humble local place gathered in shared joy can hold the same sacredness as the most famous distant pilgrimage
  • Abhanga 4218 — Looking closely at the divine reveals something too vast to be fully grasped, leaving everyone, wise or simple
  • Abhanga 4257 — Advice given to a closed, proud mind is wasted effort, like putting fine sandalwood on a donkey, and only tire
  • Abhanga 4275 — Holiness comes from devotion, not birth: saints have risen from every caste, trade, and religion, so no heredi
  • Abhanga 4355 — Caste-based judgment of work is circular and self-defeating, and pride in caste ultimately degrades the very p
  • Abhanga 4361 — The devotee who steadily makes the Pandharpur pilgrimage already lives in Vaikuntha and, through that steady p
  • Abhanga 4363 — God's deepest intimacy is given to humble, ordinary friends rather than to the powerful, and even the gods mar
  • Abhanga 4364 — Even the greatest beings must set pride completely aside to receive boundless joy, taking the humblest form to
  • Abhanga 4402 — Pandharpur can hold the same sacredness as any great pilgrimage site, but what actually brings liberation near
  • Abhanga 4426 — The vices surround a person from every side, like hunters, and naming exactly how each one traps you is the fi
  • Abhanga 4457 — Real humility before those wiser than you doesn't mean staying silent, it means speaking honestly while admitt

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Jñāneśvarī

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