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Indian

Tukaram

1608–1649

Tukaram (1608-49) was a Marathi poet-saint of the village of Dehu, near Pune, and the most popular of the Varkari devotional poets of Maharashtra. A devotee of Vithoba (Vitthal) of Pandharpur, he composed many short songs (abhangs) in plain Marathi, addressed to God as mother, father and friend, and often turned against pride, hypocrisy and empty ritual.

These seventy-six hymns are Nicol Macnicol's verse renderings in Psalms of Maratha Saints (1919), in The Heritage of India series; each abhang is cited there to the Indu Prakash edition of Tukaram's works.

Poems (76)

  1. The Mother's House
  2. The Suppliant
  3. A Beggar for Love
  4. "God Who Is Our Home"
  5. The Strife of Sense
  6. Waiting
  7. Desolation
  8. "Thee, Lord of Pity, I Beseech"
  9. From the Depths
  10. Forsake Me Not!
  11. Mother Vithoba
  12. Me Miserable
  13. Within My Heart
  14. The Restless Heart
  15. "I Long to See Thy Face"
  16. "Keep Me from Vanity"
  17. Aspiration
  18. The Only Refuge
  19. Desolate
  20. "O Save Me, Save Me!"
  21. Near Yet Far
  22. Beyond the Mountains, God
  23. "I Cannot Understand: I Love"
  24. Not One but Two
  25. Man's Extremity
  26. Though He Slay Me
  27. Pandurang
  28. Complete Surrender
  29. To Thy Dear Feet!
  30. He Leadeth Me
  31. The Joy of the Name
  32. Love's Captive
  33. The Bhakta's Duty
  34. Love Finds Out God
  35. "God Is Ours"
  36. "One Thing I Do"
  37. He Knows Our Needs
  38. "In Him Abide"
  39. The Boldness of Faith
  40. Beata Culpa
  41. The Snare of Pride
  42. I Am Poor and Needy
  43. A Blind Leader of the Blind
  44. The Pride of Knowledge
  45. The Unveiling of Love
  46. The Haven
  47. Weariness
  48. God's Counterfeit
  49. Self-Surrender
  50. Dying to Live
  51. The Root of Longing
  52. The Secret of Peace
  53. The Fellowship of Saints
  54. The Simple Path
  55. The Way of Love
  56. The Thief
  57. The Traveller
  58. By Faith Alone
  59. A Steadfast Mind
  60. The Name of the Living One
  61. The Dedicated Life
  62. The Inward Purpose
  63. The Bhakta's Task
  64. Maya
  65. "The World Passeth Away"
  66. The Way of Death
  67. "The Night Cometh"
  68. 'Tis All for Naught
  69. The Divine Inspiration
  70. Drowning Men
  71. Without and Within
  72. "And Have Not Charity"
  73. The Mendicant
  74. The Proud Advaitist
  75. The Hypocrite: I
  76. The Hypocrite: II

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