Tukaram biography in marathi language
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Sant Tukaram [ 1606-1650 ] Biography & Life History Of Tukaram | Our Heros
Sant Tukaram
Sant Tukaram was born Tukaram Bolhoba Ambile was born in the years around 1608 and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Mahārāshtra, India. Kumar, Munshi, Kincaid and Parasanisa, consider him to be of the Kunbi Maratha or agricultural tillage caste or vaani. He wrote poems of fierce social criticism.
One of his Abhangs has the beginning: “Good you made me a Kunbi, Otherwise I might have died an arrogant hypocrite“, and is an attack on Brahmin hypocrisy.
An emerging Dalit critique argues that Vithoba was seen as a Bodhisattva and Sant Tukaram saw him as one. Sant Tukaram has explored the traditions of meditation although this is not a Varkari (Vithoba-worshipping) tradition. His life and writings are intensely debated. (Buddhism in India, Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, Gail Omvedt, 2003)
Sant Tukaram (तुकाराम) (c.1608 – c.1650), also Shri Tukaram, and colloquially referred to as “Tuka (तुका), was a seventeenth century Marathi poet Sant of India, related to the Bhakti movement of Maharashtra.
Tukaram was a devotee of Vitthal (a form of Lord Krishna), the supreme God in Vaishnavism. He is especially revered by the Varkari communi
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Tukaram
17th-century Varkari Sant and Poet
This article is about 17th-century Marathi Varkari Sant 'Tukaram'. For other uses, see Tukaram (disambiguation).
Sant Tukaram Maharaj (Marathi pronunciation: [t̪ukaːɾam]), also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba, was a Hindu, Marathi Saint of Varkari sampradaya" in Dehu village, Maharashtra in the 17th century.[4][5] He was a bhakt of the god Vithoba, also known as Vitthal, of Pandharpur.[3] He is best known for his devotional poetry called Abhanga, which are popular in Maharashtra, many of his poems[6] deal with social reform.[5] His poems are included in the school and college syllabuses prominently in the state of Maharashtra.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Tukaram was born in modern-day Maharashtra state of India. His complete name was Tukaram Bolhoba Ambile.
He spent most of his later years in devotional worship, community kirtans (group prayers with singing) and composing Abhanga poetry.[3][9]
Tukaram pointed out the evil of wrongdoings of society, social system and Maharajs by his kiratans and abhangs.[10] He faced some opposition in society because of this. A man named Mambaji harassed him a lot, he was running a matha i