Tukaram: All men to me are god-like Gods!

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All men to me are god-like Gods!

Tukaram, Tukaram poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Tukaram
(1608 - 1649) Timeline

English version by
Ivan M. Granger

Original Language
Marathi

All men to me are god-like Gods!
     My eyes no longer see
     vice or fault.

Life on this suffering earth
     is now endless delight;
     the heart at rest and full,
                         overflowing.

In the mirror, the face and its reflection
     watch each other;
     different, but one.

And, when the stream pours into the ocean...
     no more stream!

/ Photo by Swami Stream /

Themes

Bliss

Heart

Pain and Wounding

Water

Recommended Books

	Life of Tukaram, by Justin E. Abbot
	Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs
	Says Tuka: Selected Poetry of Tukaram, Translated by Dilip Chitre
	Tukaram, by Ramchandra Dattatraya Ranade

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A meditation on the fundamental unity and wholeness underlying the surface appearance of separation. Every pain, every broken heart, every human yearning is ultimately found to be an expression of that one psychic need -- for wholeness. Satisfy that one need at its root, and what is there left to want? The heart in endless pursuit finally attains rest and contentment. Even the world that imagines itself in fragments is seen to be whole, one fluid unity. People are are not people but divine immensities, and the perception of suffering is replaced by timeless bliss.

And, when the stream pours into the ocean...
no more stream!

(...but endless ocean.)

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