संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Relationships & Family

What the five voices say — 802 passages.

Tukārām

  • 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 2471 — Treating trees, animals, and birds as kin turns solitude into good company, and a simple life under open sky b
  • Abhanga 2477 — Like a child too absorbed in play to notice how tired he is, let go and trust the parent calling you home, bec
  • Abhanga 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-centered craving must be c
  • Abhanga 2369 — For today: jīva lives in jīvana — fish dies in separation; as is the bhāva — so is the Dēva ; sun gives light
  • Abhanga 2399 — For today: this world is a temporary inn — udāsīna toward body; quickly cross to the next; drama-performance c
  • Abhanga 2401 — When liberation already feels secure, the only thing left to want is the sweetness of loving devotion itself,
  • Abhanga 2434 — For today: Ananta caught me; doesn't release the pallu; your words are dry — my [bhakti] is embrace with body-
  • Abhanga 2444 — Ask God for love as openly as a child asks a mother for milk, and be willing to drop your pretenses to get clo
  • Abhanga 2468 — Knowledge of truth can come quickly, but the pride that clings to it lingers until someone else's test exposes
  • Abhanga 2480 — Let people say what they will, because being cared for like a cherished child by a compassionate, all-giving d
  • Abhanga 2492 — Having given everything to this bond, the devotee asks God to drop the abstract philosophy and simply accept t
  • Abhanga 2570 — Death is a constant companion for every being, and only when the mind turns away from the illusion of permanen
  • Abhanga 3071 — Childhood slips away unnoticed in play, and what follows is not automatic wisdom but youth arriving as the roo
  • Abhanga 3098 — Tukaram makes Vitthal every relationship at once, mother, father, teacher, friend, and boat across the river o
  • Abhanga 3701 — Those who mock and condemn a sincere devotee for their devotion are the ones who bring trouble on themselves,
  • Abhanga 3730 — A place where true devotion is genuinely lived becomes blessed, protects itself from wrongdoing, and its devot
  • Abhanga 3795 — Let everything else burn away — cleverness, reputation, cold reasoning, even the body — and keep only your hea
  • Abhanga 3816 — A person's real priorities are revealed by contrast, in how generously they treat pleasure and status compared
  • Abhanga 3823 — No wealth, food, or comfort accompanies you at death, so forgetting to remember God while chasing them makes a
  • Abhanga 3827 — God stands always watching and waiting for his devotees, arms perpetually raised in welcome, like a father who
  • Abhanga 3829 — Pundalika's total devotion to serving his parents was so powerful that God himself stood waiting for ages, sho
  • Abhanga 4021 — The Name is itself the rescuer across the ocean of worldly life, and simply repeating it with steadiness disso
  • Abhanga 4087 — A life spent only working to satisfy the family's comforts, with no room for your own inner growth, wastes the
  • Abhanga 4112 — Repeating the divine Name with full devotion is already complete and sufficient in itself, needing no further

…and 663 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 4 — Rāmdās opens the parable of the ordinary householder: children multiply, and with them wealth (Lakṣmī, the god
  • Dashak 4 · Samāsa 8 — Ramdas closes the seventh bhakti and announces the eighth — sakhya-bhakti, devotion as friendship with God — a
  • Dashak 8 · Samāsa 1 — Ramdas opens the eighth dashak, on the vision of God, with a formal invitation to listen closely: what follows
  • Dashak 19 · Samāsa 1 — Rāmdās opens the samāsa with its governing claim: the lekhaka (scribe/copyist) — likened here to a brāhmaṇa, o

Jñāneśvarī

…and 66 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra