संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Who You Are

What the five voices say — 234 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2402
  • Abhanga 3025 — V1-2: Pāpā detī anumōdana, karitī heḷaṇa santāñce; kele dharmāñce nirmūḷa, praḷaya-kāḷa ārambhalā — (they) enc
  • Abhanga 4351 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, adhikārī of all sukha = Hari Nāma in mouth canonical, sarvāngēm sarvōttama — mouth Har
  • Abhanga 2368 — English: I bow to this Dēva — my service in one place.
  • Abhanga 3064 — Tukārām's anti-rote-learning text. The great egoism must first fall; (then) receiving instruction feels like s
  • Abhanga 3298 — Tukārām's striking-self-image: I am-your-watchdog — my-bhakti is-my-collar.
  • Abhanga 4233 — Gōpīchandana mudrā dharaṇe — the gōpīchandana mudrā to wear; āmhām leṇe vaiṣṇavām — our leṇa, we Vaiṣṇavas.
  • Abhanga 24 — Until the small self dies once, the actions you take are still organized by self-protection. Once it has died,
  • Abhanga 31 — After speaking, hand the result over. The witness is finished; the witness's job was to speak it, not to contr
  • Abhanga 45 — English: This abhang is for the moment when you have been searching for spiritual experience outside — in retr
  • Abhanga 55 — English: This abhang's plain claim is uncomfortable for anyone who has used birth, lineage, identity-marker, o
  • Abhanga 80 — If you have been trying to love everyone equally by effort — to suppress the self-vs-other reaction — Tukaram
  • Abhanga 90 — This abhang is for the moment when you tally your spiritual effort and notice the ego is bigger, not smaller.
  • Abhanga 155 — This abhang names the take-the-weight dimension of real engagement. The deity (or any genuine teacher / belove
  • Abhanga 156 — This abhang is a life-stage diagnostic. The four watches map cleanly: youth (took on the soham breath but the
  • Abhanga 183 — I have held the Krishna-jewel at the throat — light everywhere among people. Let us distribute kālā to each ot
  • Abhanga 193 — This abhang names what real communal-bhakti / collective-celebration does. Six markers:
  • Abhanga 205 — This abhang names the resolution-mode of the trapped-in-fire situation. Five claims:
  • Abhanga 238 — This abhang names a common bhakti-failure-mode:
  • Abhanga 247 — This abhang names a unsuitable-association warning:
  • Abhanga 248 — This abhang names three reversals you should hold in mind:
  • Abhanga 268 — This abhang names signs of social-corruption that recur in any era:
  • Abhanga 270 — This abhang names a recurring social-corruption — show-without-substance ceremonies:
  • Abhanga 271 — This abhang gives a precise root-cause analysis:
  • Abhanga 283 — This abhang names a precise schadenfreude-diagnostic:

…and 90 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 15 · Samāsa 3 — From root helter-skelter — all the pañcīkaraṇa expanse. / Among this, the thread of witness-hood — that too is

Jñāneśvarī

…and 88 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra