Question

Write about personalities and their work in your own word.

Sant Tukaram

Answer 1

1. He was a great Sant who belonged to Dehu near Pune. He stressed that devotion should have morality along with it.
2. His abhangas are very pleasing, simple & clear, and poetically rich.
3. Sant Tukaram’s work ‘Gatha’ is a precious treasure of the Marathi language.
4. He asked people to find God by loving the unhappy and tormented. To show this idea by practicing it, he threw away the documents of the loans that people had borrowed from him in the river Indrayani and freed many families from the burden of loans.
5. He criticised the hypocrisy and superstition in the society in very strong terms. Some people opposed his ideas of social awakening and threw his abhangas in the Indrayani river.
6. His disciples and associates were of different castes and creeds. Gangarampant Maval and Santaji Jagnade wrote down his abhangas.