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mother, O Vitthala, a shadow to that suppliant; the milk of love ever flows in thy breast, thy sight is pure and sweet as nectar. Thou canst discern the inward parts and sufferest not hunger or thirst, pain and weariness to vex us. Thou dost chase far away the thirst of desire and illusion; thou givest us a place to play in. Tukā says, Set me with the saints, where the hand of time cannot reach me." | The mother Vithobā evades the child for a long time and then the child becomes too much impatient to get the mother for suckling. Tukārāma, being tired of the world, becomes very impatient to meet the Mother Vithoba. He says entreatingly --"Suckle me O mother, with the milk of love, run towards me with swollen breast." God is extremely sweet and has a very smoothening effect. God is full of love and peace. He says –-“Thou art more loving than a mother, cooler than the moon, more yielding than water, a billow of love..... Thou madest the nectar sweet, yet thou art sweeter than nectar.''3 He seeks a personal communion with God to enjoy to the fullest extent the joy of the company of God in a mystical way. Therefore, Ranade describes the form of his devotion of Tukārām as “Personalistic Mysticism”. Tukārāma describes his experience of union with God in the following poem-“I have found a sea of love, an inexhaustible flood; I have opened a
1 Fraser J. N. and Marathe K. B. (Tr.): The Poems of Tukūrāma, Vol. I, 312, p. 110.
2 Ibid. Vol. II, 1970, p. 242. 3 Ibid. 2005, p. 250.
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