Tukaram and the Vitthal Naam: The Abhang Tradition of Maharashtra
Every year, hundreds of thousands of barefoot pilgrims walk for weeks across Maharashtra – singing. Not silently, not in brief bursts, but continuously: “Vitthal Vitthal Vitthal.” Through rain, through blistered feet, through the night. The wari pilgrimage to Pandharpur is not a march to a destination – it is a moving river of naam jap….