Bhakti SaintsAn atlas of devotion

Verses  ·  Tukaram  ·  Abhanga vii

पंढरीचा राजा विठोबा रखुमाई।
भक्तांच्या संगती उभा राहिला आई॥

Vitthala, king of Pandharpur, stands among devotees with Rakhumai beside him.

Tukaram  ·  Abhanga

Translator’s note

on the language of the verse

Tukaram’s devotion is intimate, not distant. God is imagined among ordinary people, not above them.

The voice

Tukaram

तुकाराम

The grocer-poet of Dehu, c. 1608 – 1649.

The questions it touches
  • Devotion