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end his worldly life.' Tukārāma, therefore, holds that one can meet God simply by sincere love and tremendous and unshakable faith in Him. What is necessary is to throw the burden of deeds on God. In fact, the jivas falsely appropriate deeds to them. God is the real doer. God moves the strings as a puppet-player moves the strings of his puppets.? The jiva feels through mistake that it is the doer of actions. It is only an instrument of God to perform the actions. The devotee should overcome his egoity and realise that God is the real doer of actions. For that purpose it is necessary, on the part of the devotee, to surrender every thing of his to God to part with his store of merit, past and future. Then the sprouts of the seeds of action will be burnt off; and there will not be future birth any more. The devotee has to surrender himself to God body, mind, and sou).
Tukārāma looks upon God as his closest relative. God is to him mother, father, brother, bosom friend, treasure, family, and darling of the soul.4 Tukārāma does not seek liberation by completely submerging himself into God; on the contrary, he repeatedly seeks to maintain his distinction from God and desires to remain eternally as His servant. He says "Cursed be that knowledge which makes
1 Fraser J. N. and Marathe K. B. (Tr.) : The Poems of Tukārāma, Vol. II, 1846, p. 209.
2 Ibid. 1806, p. 197. 3 Ibid. 1845, p. 209. 4 Ibid. Vol. I, 215, p. 77.
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