संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Pride & Humility

What the five voices say — 140 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2390
  • Abhanga 2486
  • Abhanga 2491 — For today: māyā is unknowable; multiple Purāṇic-episodes show pride-humbled; Lord plays in everyone's mode.
  • Abhanga 2548
  • Abhanga 3125 — Mhaṇavitōm dāsa na karitām sevā — I am called dāsa without doing sevā; laṇḍapaṇe Devā pōṭa bharīm — with laṇḍa
  • Abhanga 3137 — Taise nahōm āmhī Viṭhṭhalāñce dāsa — we are not such (as others) — Viṭhṭhala's dāsas; yāve āṇikāmsa kākulatī —
  • Abhanga 3447 — Siddhīñcā dāsa navhe śrutīñcā ankilā — not the dāsa of siddhi, nor śruti's ankilā; hōīmna Viṭhṭhalā sarva tujh
  • Abhanga 3531 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, arrogant kinds colored by drava intoxicant, keep great distance from them, no pāṭhī pōṭ
  • Abhanga 3545 — Tukārām's anti-non-bhajaka warning. Why do you not bhajan Hari? — who will accept you? There will be yama-purī
  • Abhanga 3844 — Hōūm śabda-sparśa naye mājhā tumhām — my word-touch should not (touch) you; vipra-vrndā tumhām brāmhaṇāmsī — y
  • Abhanga 3919 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, jaṭā yogi type — long hair kāsōṭā vibhūti pride, wants miṣṭāna bhojana, not his svadhar
  • Abhanga 4016 — Saving-kunkuma — for-bōḍakā-dēvī.
  • Abhanga 33 — English: This abhang is for the moment when private practice has stopped working and you can feel something ha
  • Abhanga 39 — English: This abhang is for the moment when you feel you have arrived too late to whatever community, traditio
  • Abhanga 54 — English: This abhang names a structural error most modern self-help inverts. We are taught to claim — claim ou
  • Abhanga 56 — Anger-driven gestures are usually self-harm dressed up as defiance. Look at your own benefit; don't refuse it
  • Abhanga 110 — The abhang's compression is its gift. अवघ्या साधनांचें सार, न लगे फार शोधावें — सांडीं देह अभिमान. The essence
  • Abhanga 125 — This abhang offers a precise ethics-of-position. Position determines respect-allocation in specific contexts:
  • Abhanga 156 — This abhang is a life-stage diagnostic. The four watches map cleanly: youth (took on the soham breath but the
  • Abhanga 193 — This abhang names what real communal-bhakti / collective-celebration does. Six markers:
  • Abhanga 263 — This abhang names a precise pūjā-mechanic with anti-saint-deification implications:
  • Abhanga 374 — English: Saint-samāgama — in some way — stay at his door as śvāna-yāti.
  • Abhanga 489 — English: Saints made abhaya-uttara-dāna — citta became samādhāna by that.
  • Abhanga 511 — English: I wait the prasāda-vāṭa — give the washed tāṭa.
  • Abhanga 690 — This abhang names the humility-and-vouching register:

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