संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Work & Duty

What the five voices say — 177 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 3701 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, rare ventriloquist text elder's voice complaining about Tukārām, what to do pōrā chaṭa
  • Abhanga 4355 — Bibvyā-work — adhama-the-adhama.
  • Abhanga 2358 — For today: all-women equally subject to jaganinda; all-thieves of-householder-duty except-legitimate; do servi
  • Abhanga 2515
  • Abhanga 3465 — Caught-in-vēṭha — for-free.
  • Abhanga 4178 — Child-latched-on — holds-temple-path.
  • Abhanga 4533 — Tukā mhaṇe signature, Nārāyaṇa to nija mandira — bahuḍavanē given, don't forget me for moment, vrttānta tol
  • Abhanga 1 — Attention rests where it wants to. The whole spiritual life turns on what you ask it to settle on.
  • Abhanga 3 — Ask for love itself, not for the benefits of love. The benefits look small once love is present; the absence o
  • Abhanga 7 — If devotion is real, the shame the world will throw at you is not a problem to solve. It is the visible shape
  • Abhanga 8 — When your sanctioned life cannot feed what is hungriest in you, the move toward what actually feeds you is not
  • Abhanga 9 — English: This abhang is the verse for the moment after a real life-direction choice. Most spiritual writing is
  • Abhanga 11 — Once you have left, the next discipline is becoming deaf to the people who keep calling you back.
  • Abhanga 14 — The economy is plain: brief intense suffering once, in exchange for unfailing rest forever. The alternative —
  • Abhanga 21 — Half-renunciation is the worst position. You lose what you left and you don't reach what you were going to.
  • Abhanga 27 — There is no shortcut. The work that looks dramatic from the outside is built by years of unsexy, unwitnessed p
  • Abhanga 31 — After speaking, hand the result over. The witness is finished; the witness's job was to speak it, not to contr
  • Abhanga 34 — When you meet someone who is awake to their own benefit, the right move is gratitude toward the parents who ra
  • Abhanga 44 — English: This abhang inverts a modern assumption. We are taught that supply comes from effort, extraction, lev
  • Abhanga 52 — When the I-ness is auctioned off, what inhabits the body is Pandurang. The body is not lost; it is repopulated
  • Abhanga 54 — English: This abhang names a structural error most modern self-help inverts. We are taught to claim — claim ou
  • Abhanga 64 — English: For fragrance, don't crush the flower.
  • Abhanga 67 — This abhang's claim is among Tukaram's harshest for modern spirituality, which is heavily transactional. Manif
  • Abhanga 86 — English: You befriend the mighty — they don't come to use at the end.
  • Abhanga 96 — In Kaliyuga, do kirtan — the deity will appear. You don't need to abandon livelihood or take up forest-ascetic

…and 79 more in search.

Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 7 · Samāsa 10 — Śrīrāma. The false itself became true; the true itself became non-true; such is the work of māyā's delusion —
  • Dashak 18 · Samāsa 10 — Attention to a certain work; somehow obstruction occurs; / if time permits, spontaneously — it happens.

Jñāneśvarī

…and 40 more in search.

Aṣṭāvakra

Guru Charitra

Teachings

  • Work as Practice — There is a persistent rumor that the spiritual life begins where the working life ends — that the serious seek