संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Who You Are

What the five voices say — 320 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2402 — For today: happily take rebirths — IF among the Paṇḍharī-Vārkarīs ; Hari-dāsas' company is prema-rest; this mi
  • Abhanga 4546 — True recognition of what actually sustains you comes only after pride falls away, not before, and that humble
  • Abhanga 2417 — For today: ask in your own place, empty ahankāra; word-net is māyā; fruit-is-seed, seed-is-fruit ; all are whe
  • Abhanga 2507 — Surrendering life's whole burden to God settles a restless, anxious mind into deep peace and quietly dissolves
  • Abhanga 3814 — Whoever sincerely holds the Name of God has no caste distinction left, just as iron becomes gold, rainwater be
  • Abhanga 4219 — One of the cowherds describes the terror they felt watching Krishna open his mouth wide and swallow the raging
  • Abhanga 4303 — Tukaram describes the state of union where ego has dissolved and only a steady, pure identity with the formles
  • Abhanga 4351 — Whoever speaks the name of Hari becomes entitled to every joy and is made supreme by that Name, a certainty co
  • Abhanga 4363 — God's deepest intimacy is given to humble, ordinary friends rather than to the powerful, and even the gods mar
  • Abhanga 4404 — Pandharpur welcomes people from every background as equals, and even a visit made with incomplete faith can st
  • Abhanga 4436 — A moment of complete absorption in something sacred can feel like the boundary between yourself and what you'r
  • Abhanga 4438 — Old age arrives with brutal physical decline, so turn your mind toward what matters most now, before decline m
  • Abhanga 4553 — Those whose hearts are fully captured by God become so united with him in constant companionship that they the
  • Abhanga 4574 — Weaving remembrance of God into ordinary daily life, rather than setting it apart, is what steadily shapes ord
  • Abhanga 2298 — External marks of holiness such as robes, rituals, lineage, and pilgrimage prove nothing; the only real test o
  • Abhanga 2304 — This is a remarkable 35-verse abhang where every line begins with the next letter of the alphabet, and togethe
  • Abhanga 2339 — For today: my death itself has died — made me immortal; the place wiped, the base wiped — deha-bhāva desolate;
  • Abhanga 2368 — Serve one God with single-minded devotion, treat every person as a manifestation of the divine, and trust that
  • Abhanga 2430 — For today: words pierce the antara like vajra — speak with care; swallow ahankāra — Nārāyaṇa dwells in the hou
  • Abhanga 2544 — For today: all techniques fail — saints' feet remain — abhaya-dāna .
  • Abhanga 2554 — The Lord's true nature is intimate, unashamed, plain in appearance, and silently witnessing, and once he takes
  • Abhanga 2559 — Once you stand face to face with the divine, old attachments to worldly pleasure fall away and a steady, unfai
  • Abhanga 2562 — The deepest surrender is a complete exchange of self, with no pretense left, witnessed only by the one who tru
  • Abhanga 3064 — Ego must fall and the heart must be sincere before knowledge or teaching becomes real; without genuine feeling
  • Abhanga 3121 — Tukaram's honest self-criticism shows that ego and unchecked craving trap us in a false reality, and true chan

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 6 — The samāsa opens mid-argument: after the exposition of advaita-brahma ('non-dual Brahman', beyond all kalpanā,
  • Dashak 15 · Samāsa 3 — Rāmdās opens with the picture of pañcīkaraṇa — the five-elements doctrine spun out in every direction from its
  • Dashak 15 · Samāsa 5 — Opens the samāsa's run of paradox-riddles about the phenomenal world: three (guṇas or aspects) move as though
  • Dashak 17 · Samāsa 1 — In nishchal (unmoving) Brahman there is a chanchal (moving) Ātmā — the Paramātmā beyond all things, called cha

Jñāneśvarī

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Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra