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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 112 of 4582

Abhanga 112

This abhang gives a diagnostic for distinguishing real-non-duality from intellectual-non-duality. The signs are concrete: (1) no company-keeping for status / distraction / consumption; (2) inner stillness; (3) no mamatā — no this-is-mine claim. Without all three, any non-dual talk is बडबड (babble). The harder progression: even intention must stop arising. At that level, self-conscious-knowing itself goes; what fills the space is ananda. The application is honest tallying: do my body-signs match these? If not, my non-dual fluency is babble; the cure is not better arguments but the actual practice of no-company, stillness, no-mamatā.

When someone is pontificating about non-duality and you have to recognize the अनुभवावांचून बडबड (without-experience-it's-babble) marker
When mamatā (mine-ness) keeps staining things even after you've articulated non-dual ideas — and you have to address the actual lived-state
When you wonder what real spiritual attainment looks like and Tukaram's no-संकल्प-touches-the-mind is the diagnostic

The verse

न करीं रे संग राहें रे निश्चळ । लागों नेदीं मळ ममतेचा ॥१॥ या नांवें अद्वैत खरें ब्रम्हज्ञान । अनुभवावांचून बडबड ते ॥ध्रु.॥ इंद्रियांचा जय वासनेचा क्षय । संकल्पा ही न ये वरी मन ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे न ये जाणीव अंतरा । अंतरीं या थारा आनंदाचा ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: Do not keep company; stay still; do not let the stain of mamatā (mine-ness) adhere. This itself is what is called true non-duality, true brahma-knowledge — without experience, all the rest is babble. Victory over the senses; end of vāsanā; samkalpa (intention) does not even rise to the mind. Tuka says: self-conscious-knowing does not enter the inner — there, ananda dwells.

मराठी: संग करू नका; निश्चल राहा; ममतेचा मळ लागू देऊ नका. हेच खरं अद्वैत, खरं ब्रम्हज्ञान — अनुभवावाचून बाकी सर्व बडबड. इंद्रियांचा जय, वासनेचा क्षय; संकल्पही मनापर्यंत येत नाही. तुकाराम म्हणतात — जाणीव अंतरात येत नाही; तिथे आनंदाचा थारा.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
न करीं रे संग "do not keep (worldly) company"
राहें रे निश्चळ "stay still"
लागों नेदीं मळ ममतेचा "do not let the stain of mine-ness adhere"
या नांवें अद्वैत खरें ब्रम्हज्ञान "this is what is called true non-duality, true brahma-jnana"
अनुभवावांचून बडबड ते "without experience, the rest is babble"
इंद्रियांचा जय वासनेचा क्षय "victory over the senses, end of vāsanā (latent-desire)"
संकल्पा ही न ये वरी मन "samkalpa (intention / impulse) does not even rise to the mind"
न ये जाणीव अंतरा "self-conscious-knowing does not enter the inner"
अंतरीं या थारा आनंदाचा "in the inner — that — is the dwelling of ananda"

What it means

A precise real-vs-babble abhang. Tukaram is not rejecting non-duality (advaita); he is rejecting intellectual non-duality without lived-experience. The structural claim: real advaita has body-signs — no संग (worldly company), निश्चल (stillness), no ममता (mine-ness staining). These are concrete behavioral and inner markers, not philosophical positions. The escalation: senses defeated, vāsanā ended, samkalpa does not even arise — and finally जाणीव (self-conscious-knowing) does not enter the inner. At that depth, ananda dwells. [T]

For someone today

This abhang gives a diagnostic for distinguishing real-non-duality from intellectual-non-duality. The signs are concrete: (1) no company-keeping for status / distraction / consumption; (2) inner stillness; (3) no mamatā — no this-is-mine claim. Without all three, any non-dual talk is बडबड (babble). The harder progression: even intention must stop arising. At that level, self-conscious-knowing itself goes; what fills the space is ananda. The application is honest tallying: do my body-signs match these? If not, my non-dual fluency is babble; the cure is not better arguments but the actual practice of no-company, stillness, no-mamatā.

मराठी: ही ओवी real-non-duality vs intellectual-non-duality ओळखायला diagnostic देते. चिन्हं concrete: (१) status / distraction / consumption साठी संग नको; (२) आत-निश्चलता; (३) ममता नाही — हे माझं दावा नाही. तीन्हीशिवाय कोणतीही non-dual बोलणी बडबड. कठीण progression: संकल्पही उठायला नाही. त्या खोलीवर जाणीवही जाते; जागा भरते ananda ने. lागू प्रामाणिक हिशोब: माझी body-चिन्हं जुळतात? नाहीत — माझी non-dual fluency बडबड; उपाय better arguments नाहीत — no-संग, निश्चलता, no-ममता ची प्रत्यक्ष साधना.

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