Bedtime story:
Sant Tukaram was a great bhakta of VITTHALA. He always spent his time singing for VITTHALA, drowned in bhakti. His wife, Jija Bai, once asked Tukaram to sell wheat from their field and get the money.
He goes to the market, and as every one knows about his bhakti +
Sant Tukaram was a great bhakta of VITTHALA. He always spent his time singing for VITTHALA, drowned in bhakti. His wife, Jija Bai, once asked Tukaram to sell wheat from their field and get the money.
He goes to the market, and as every one knows about his bhakti +
For VITTHALA, they would talk to him about VITTHALA, and Tukaram overwhelmed with bhakti by their talk, gives them wheat for free. In the evening, while going home he takes a big sugarcane from his field and. Jija Bai asks him about the money, he says, he didn't have any, and +
Gives the big sugarcane to her, and stands quiet. Taken over by anger and rage, Jija Bai takes the sugarcane and hits it to the ground, breaking it to 2 halves. Tukaram, then picks the two pieces and says, VITTHALA is so kind and graceful he broke the sugarcane to two, one for +
You, and the other for me, and starts singing again. Tukaram had such bhakti where he would see everything positive in whatever happens in life, and as Hari iccha. This bhakti is what got him SASHAREERA MUKTI. VITTHALA sent him a vimana, which took him SAJEEVA to vaikuntha +
He boarded the vimana under NANDURKI TREE at DEHU in Maharashtra. The day he left to vaikuntha is celebrated as TUKARAM BEEJ. To this day, on TUKARAM BEEJ, exactly at 12.02 pm, the NANDURKI TREE , sways rampantly with force , while the entire nature becomes silent, and comes to+
A standstill. Sant Tukaram was one among very few who attained Jeevan mukti. The day sant Tukaram left sajeeva to Vaikuntha is PHALGUNA KRISHNA VIDHIYA. This year it occurs on March 20. May the fortunate get the darshana 🙏
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