संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Themes

Work & Duty

What the five voices say — 330 passages.

Tukārām

  • Abhanga 2471 — Treating trees, animals, and birds as kin turns solitude into good company, and a simple life under open sky b
  • Abhanga 2487 — There is a painful in-between stage where you belong neither to your old worldly life nor to the new spiritual
  • Abhanga 2432 — For today: these are not my ornaments — Nārāyaṇa made them proper ; pearl-garlands of words — from the source-
  • Abhanga 3495 — Every outward show of holiness, monasteries, begging bowls, and ash, is worthless without real devotion to Ram
  • Abhanga 3701 — Those who mock and condemn a sincere devotee for their devotion are the ones who bring trouble on themselves,
  • Abhanga 3743 — One sincere, simple practice like repeating God's Name can carry the weight of every traditional ritual and du
  • Abhanga 3816 — A person's real priorities are revealed by contrast, in how generously they treat pleasure and status compared
  • Abhanga 3829 — Pundalika's total devotion to serving his parents was so powerful that God himself stood waiting for ages, sho
  • Abhanga 3913 — Tukaram teaches that the body, the mind's sense of I-ness, and even a tree's stirring leaves all move by God's
  • Abhanga 3988 — Real devotion takes responsibility for carrying others along too, turning your own life's purpose into a boat
  • Abhanga 4242 — Everything the body and senses chase in ordinary life is as unreal as a mirage, and only action truly offered
  • Abhanga 4283 — Pundalik's complete, single-minded devotion to serving his elderly parents was itself such pure worship that i
  • Abhanga 4355 — Caste-based judgment of work is circular and self-defeating, and pride in caste ultimately degrades the very p
  • Abhanga 4443 — At the end of everything, what matters most isn't achievement or even a spiritual reward, but simply dying wit
  • Abhanga 4453 — Real devotion doesn't chase liberation as a distant prize, it asks only for closeness, simple daily practices,
  • Abhanga 2304 — This is a remarkable 35-verse abhang where every line begins with the next letter of the alphabet, and togethe
  • Abhanga 2314 — Once you have carried someone's need faithfully to the one who can actually grant it, let go of the outcome, b
  • Abhanga 2354 — Carrying both worldly duties and a hidden devotion to God is genuinely hard, but that rare meeting with the di
  • Abhanga 2359 — One true moment in the presence of the divine outweighs a lifetime spent doing duty without any real feeling i
  • Abhanga 2362 — True discernment, like a swan separating milk from water, is quick and effortless once you truly know what you
  • Abhanga 2406 — A reverent heart grows goodness wherever it turns, and the truest merit comes from deepening your own reflecti
  • Abhanga 2408 — Call out and God comes running like a mother to her child; say the Name first and love for it will follow on i
  • Abhanga 2419 — After a long search, the devotee stops accepting distance and asks God to stand close, face to face, and settl
  • Abhanga 2515 — For today: all burden on you ; whatever work I do, my service is your Name ; gives nothing, asks nothing — jus
  • Abhanga 2536 — Grace can arrive unearned as a sudden gift, and once received, you should hold onto that connection and trust

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Dāsabodha

  • Dashak 3 · Samāsa 5 — He arrives abroad and throws himself into work (vyāsaṅga — deep engagement with business), enduring many hards
  • Dashak 12 · Samāsa 1 — Ramdas opens Dashak 12 with the core balance he will insist on throughout: attend to prapañca — worldly life a
  • Dashak 13 · Samāsa 5 — The samāsa opens as a frame story: two detached wanderers, to fill time, begin a kathā (tale). The device of t
  • Dashak 14 · Samāsa 2 — Ramdas opens by stating that begging alms is the core initiation-duty (dīkṣā) of a Brahmin renunciant — not a
  • Dashak 16 · Samāsa 1 — Rāmdās opens the samāsa with unqualified praise: Vālmīki is puṇyaśloka (praise-worthy, of blessed repute) amon

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