Tukaram Quotes

Whatever happens, happens for the best.' That's how any domestic counselling starts in a Marathi family. Everyone in every family has an inner psychiatrist who rises to the occasion with some home-made mottos, a few lines from Jagjit Singh ghazal. An older generation may quote Tukaram but underlying all this is the bedrock phase: Whatever happens, happens for the best.

Words are the jewels That our homes are filled with The tools that we strive with Are but of words

That values are always relative to time and place is the stand taken by Indian philosophy. And even their acceptance might be more theoretical than practical. For example, genocide is now recognized as an international crime and yet it is still committed and connived at. The great saint Tukaram admonished that 'Slaves be treated as kindly as one's own children'. A modern man instead of admiring the compassion behind this statement would be indignantly pointing out how Tukaram condoned a society which allowed a man to possess slaves!

Remember,” Tukaram said as they walked to Arnav’s car, “this job will let you go someday. Find yourself someone who won’t. Maybe a good girl. Get married. Your family will stick by you. Invite me to the wedding.

I sit by the lotus-lake, eat God, & count water-pearls over waxy petals. Again, I unpeel the black sky & trace teal mountains.

The difference between us & God is there is no doorway between us and God. Among ourselves, we erect many frames.

Tuka, when I look for God in the dark there is no fear of ringing the wrong doorbell. No necessity of gyarah annas.

because a morsel of rice is God to the hungry. Rain is God to the dry mouth of earth.

Tuka, even the sky bleeds vermillion to birth a new sun each day.

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