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To him the world appears arid and he most intensely desires to flee away from it.
Tukārāma being a Vaişņava, believes that God can be reached only by devotion (bhakti) and sincere love for Him, and not by learning, sacrifices, Yogic practices, and by other means by retaining in tact one's attachment to the world and to one's ego. He holds that renunciation of one's personal belongings and that of ego are absolutely necessary for attaining the final union with God. Tukārāma says that he who would conquer Hari must renounce all. He must do away with the fascination of the world and with love, affection, and anxious care; he must burn off the very root of sensual desire. Fear of men, vain glory, pride, and envy he must banish. Peace, forbearance, and compassion he must make his handmaids and send them to bring the wheel-handed (Cakrapāņi) one near him. The pride of caste and learning must be shunned.' The real devotee of God must cultivate these qualities and conquer his senses and must not love any other thing but God only.
Tukārāma holds that there is no need for penance or self-subjugation; these are present in the preaching of Hari. These are present in its mystic union, and the Yogi's transfigured countenance; they will come to dwell there and liberation has its home with the saints. Tukārāma believes that the name of Hari (God) alone can save the jiva and it can
i Fraser J. N. and Marathe K. B. (Tr.) : The Poems of Tukārāma, Vol. II, 2343, p. 341.
3 Ibid. 1827, p. 204.
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