Sant tukaram drawing

• About us • • • • • • • Prelims • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Practice Quiz • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Mains & Interview • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Current Affairs • • • • • • • • • Drishti Specials • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Test Series • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • State PCS • • • • • • • • • Videos • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Quick Links Tags: • • • • Why in News? Recently, Prime Minister inaugurated the Sant Tukaram Shila Mandir in the temple town of Dehu in the Pune district. • Shila Mandir is a temple dedicated to a slab of stone (shila) on which Sant Tukaram meditated for 13 days. • Shila refers to a rock that is currently on the Dehu Sansthan temple premises, and that for centuries has been the starting point of Wari, the annual pilgrimage to Pandharpur. • The rock where he sat for 13 days is considered pious and a place of pilgrimage for the wakari sect. Who was Sant Tukaram? • About: • Sant Tukaram was a Warkari saint and poet. • The sect is spread across Maharashtra and Sant Tukaram and his works are central to it. • He was famously known for Abhanga devotional poetry and community-oriented worship through spiritual songs known as Kirtans. • Also, composed a Marathi genre of literature called Abhanga poetry which fused folk stories with spiritual themes. • His Philosophy: • Tukaram mentions four more people in his Abhangas work who had a major influence on his spiritu...