Tukaram : (1607-49), poet-saint of Mahārāshṭra. His devotional songs, addressed to Viṭhala (Lord Vishnu), greatly influenced Shivaji.
... poets. Other Vaishnava poetry does not use the Krishna symbol, but is rather addressed in language of a more direct devotion to Vishnu or centres sometimes around the Rama Avatar. The songs of Tukaram are the best known of this kind. The Vaishnava poetry of Bengal avoids except very rarely any element of intellectualising thought and relies purely on emotional description, a sensuous figure of passion... cultivated class, but with few exceptions the expression of a popular culture. The Ramayana of Tulsidas, the songs of Ramprasad and of the Bauls, the wandering Vaishnava devotees, the poetry of Ramdas and Tukaram, the sentences of Tiruvalluvar and the poetess Avvai and the inspired lyrics of the southern saints and Alwars were known to all classes and their thought or their emotion entered deeply into the life ...
... of men or even the cultured elite anywhere else. Where else could the lofty, austere and difficult teaching of a Buddha have seized so rapidly on the popular mind? Where else could the songs of a Tukaram, a Ramprasad, a Kabir, the Sikh gurus and the chants of the Tamil saints with their fervid devotion but also their profound spiritual thinking have found so speedy an echo and formed a popular religious ...
... the outstanding figure with the hero just behind, while in later times the most striking feature is the long uninterrupted chain from Buddha and Mahavira to Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak, Ramdas and Tukaram and beyond them to Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and Dayananda. But there have been also the remarkable achievements of statesmen and rulers, from the first dawn of ascertainable history which comes ...
... Page 270 truth, 37 , 57 , 112, 122 , 197 infinite, 204 loyalty to , 206-207 monopoly of, 190 new Truth, 171, 184 , 196,200-201,241 spiritual truth, 202 supreme Truth, 254 Tukaram, 146 Turkey, 169 U unity, 31 , 167 see also Indian Upanishads, 69, 97, IOS, 110, 137, 171 , 194,201 Uttarpara Speech, 48·49 V Vaishyas, 29, 120-121 Vander Mataram, see ...
... of men or even the cultured elite anywhere else. Where else could the lofty, austere and difficult teaching of a Buddha have seized so rapidly on the popular mind? Where else could the songs of a Tukaram, a Ramprasad, a Kabir, the Sikh Gurus and the chants of the Tamil saints with their fervid devotion but also their profound spiritual thinking have found so speedy an echo and formed a popular religious ...
... pariahdom. In other words, one would be satisfied even if there were no such spiritual inspiration in the country as breathed and lived in a Vasishtha or a Yajnavalkya, a Chaitanya or a Mirabai, a Tukaram or a Tulsidas, a Ramakrishna or a Vivekananda - provided there were no scheduled classes! One may inquire what sort of life would there be on earth without the rishis, the saints, the mystics, the ...
... vitality. I think rather it was its spirit. I am inclined to give more credit for the secular miracle of our national survival to Shankara, Ramanuja, Nanak & Kabir, Guru Govind, Chaitanya, Ramdas & Tukaram than to Raghunandan and the Pandits of Nadiya & Bhatpara. The result of this well-meaning bondage has been an increasing impoverishment of the Indian intellect, once the most gigantic and original ...
... Anyhow his praise of Suryamukhi qua poetry—please note. I am very glad of it. Yes, it is very welcome. But what a change in India. Once religious or spiritual poetry held the first place (Tukaram, Mirabai, Tulsidas, Surdas, the Tamil Alvars and Shaiva poets and a number of others) 6 3 and now spiritual poetry is not poetry, altogether achal [static]! But luckily things are sachal ...
... study and contemplation of Chapter XI of the Bhagavad Gita Vow of the Buddha Selected Psalms Islamic prayers Selected portions from Tulsidas Songs of Mirabai, Surdas, Tukaram, Ramprasad, and other saints Prayer of Swami Vivekananda Class X Science and Values Our knowledge regarding man: Man in evolution Has man made progress? Limitations ...
... study and contemplation of Chapter XI of the Bhagavad Gita -Vow of the Buddha -Selected Psalms -Islamic prayers -Selected portions from Tulsidas -Songs of Mirabai, Surdas, Tukaram, Ramprasad, and other saints -Prayer of Swami Vivekananda Class X I. Sciences and Values 1. Our knowledge regarding man: (a) Man in evolution (b) Has man made progress ...
... 236, 237,262ff, 266fh, 267ff, 284,333fn, 343, 452,464,490,521,527,529 Towers, Robert Mason, 49 Triumph-Song of Trishuncou, The, 162,390 Truman, Harry S., 721,722 Tukaram, 9,280,497 Twelfth Night, 133 Tyberg, Judith (Jyotipriya), 751 Ulupy (Uloupie), 106 Upadhyaya, Brahmabandhab, 190,245,305, 326,728 Urvasie, 68,99ff; Lionel ...
... spoke at Nasik on Swaraj: the favourite theme - Swaraj was amrta, Swaraj was mukti, and this was true as much for the individual as for the nation. Hadn't Shivaji, inspired by the gospel of Tukaram and Ramdas, led the country to freedom? That miracle could be re-enacted once more. On the 26th at Dhulia, the subject being Swadeshi and Boycott. At Amraoti on the 29th, the meeting commenced with ...
... towards self-realisation and God-realisation". 17 And one particular feature of Indian religion has been the periodic occurrence of "messengers of the Spirit" - Nammalvar, Andal, Manikkavasagar, Tukaram, Kabir, Mira, Sankara Deva and Nanak - who were minstrels of God and ambassadors of the Absolute. But although many were these witnesses, these Seers, Rishis, Alvars, Acharyas, Prahladas, although ...
... Bengalis, depend upon you because the sons of Maharashtra were brave soldiers a short while ago. You enjoyed Swaraj when you were harassed by Mahomedans. A similar commandment was conveyed to you through Tukaram, Ramdas and others, Page 835 and in obedience to this commandment all Marathas joined. Shivaji, the warrior, came from you, and Swaraj was established in Maharashtra. The poor were rescued ...
... to it with pride & admiration but it is to be feared that it did not proceed upon a sufficiently intellectual basis. Had the movement of thought & intelligence expressed in the writings of Ramdas, Tukaram, Moropunt been allowed first to fulfil itself & the Mahratta development refrained from transferring itself too hastily into the sphere of political action, the result might have been more sure, more ...
... Jayadeva and the other rich creations of classical Indian drama and poetry and romance, the Dhammapada and the Jatakas, the Panchatantra, Tulsidas, Vidyapati and Chandidas and Ramprasad, Ramdas and Tukaram, Tiruvalluvar and Kamban and the songs of Nanak and Kabir and Mirabai and the southern Shaiva saints and the Alwars,—to name only the best-known writers and most characteristic productions, though ...
... Indian backwardness. Tilak resisted Ranade because nativism was at odds with Ranade's Westernised ways; but Gokhale who represented the middle path of moderation revered him, likening him to Eknath and Tukaram in his enthusiasm. Ranade was fired by a religious conviction about India's manifest destiny and acted on that belief, but it was Gokhale, the founder of the Servants of India Society who imbibed the ...
... ideas and experiences are one thing and can be the subject matter of poetry, but poetry by itself is another matter. In this respect Jnaneshwar has no peer in Marathi literature, perhaps even in Tukaram when we consider the wide-ranging nature of his composition in the richness of its sounds and colours and feelings and thoughts, its echoes and shades and nuances, its many-sided perceptions. Its reach ...
... impose his will on his brothers and beautiful sisters, Chinmayi and Sudhira. This is a line from AE's poem "Krisna". sanskrita totaka: a poetical metre in Sanskrit. Tukaram: famous poet and saint of Maharashtra. He was a senior contemporary of Shivaji I on whom his poems and teaching had a great influence. Mirabai (1498-1547) was the daughter of Raja Ratan Singh ...
... the full occult, mystic, spiritual purpose. 5 February 1932 Page 100 Spiritual Poetry in India But what a change in India. Once religious or spiritual poetry held the first place (Tukaram, Mirabai, Tulsidas, Surdas, the Tamil Alwars and Shaiva poets, and a number of others)—and now spiritual poetry is not poetry, altogether অচল But luckily things are সচল and the movability may bring ...
... up their bodies as an irremediable malady. The apparently accidental dissolution of the bodies of Sri Chaitanya of Bengal, of the famous Pawahari Baba of Gazipur and of the Maharashtrian saint Tukaram may have its occult compelling factor in some such spiritual malaise. 4 We thus encounter an all-round denigration of our physical existence. But what are after all the precise disabilities ...
... and contemplation of Chapter XI of the Bhagavad Gita. Vow of the Buddha Selected Psalms Islamic prayers Selected portions from Tulsidas Songs ofMirabai, Surdas, Tukaram, Ramprasad, and ofher saints Prayer of Swami Vivekananda Page 234 Class X I. Sciences and Values: 1. Our knowledge regarding man: (a) Man in evolution ...
... Sikhism: Guru Nanak (iii) Akbar (iv) Abul Fazal, Faizi and Tansen (v) Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb (vi) Great Saints: Narsi Mehta, Tulsidas, Meerabai, Surdas, Chaitanya, Tukaram (vii) Establishment ofKhalsa: Guru Gobind Singh (viii) Vijay Nagar (ix) Annals of Rajputana (x) Rana Pratap (xi) The rise of Maratha Power (xi) Shivaji (xii) Sufism ...
... Fitness for Swaraj can be acquired only in Swaraj. Among the means of winning Swaraj, he said, the first and greatest was faith in God. For, God 137 commands and inspires us to conquer our freedom. Tukaram and Ramdas spread the gospel of freedom, and Shivaji conquered it. God's will was working through the youth of the country. He delivered another lecture there, but we have not been able to get any ...
... Egypt and Assyria; but the Aryan race... was saved by the rejuvenating flow of heavenly nectar which gushed from time to time from the ancient source. Shankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak, Ramdas and Tukaram brought back to life a moribund India by sprinkling her with that divine nectar. However, the current of rajas and tamas was so strong that by its pull, even the best were altered into the worst ...
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