Abhanga 283
This abhang names a precise schadenfreude-diagnostic:
The verse
आणिकांच्या घातें । ज्यांचीं निवतील चित्तें ॥१॥ ते चि ओळखावे पापी । निरयवासी शीघ्रकोपी ॥ध्रु.॥ कान पसरोनी । ऐके वदे दुष्ट वाणी ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे भांडा । धीर नाहीं ज्याच्या तोंडा॥३॥
Literal translation
English: Those whose chitta cools at others' ghāta — recognize them as pāpīs; niraya-vāsī, śīghra-kopī. Spreading the ear, hears (and) speaks duṣṭa-vāṇī. Tuka says: bhāṇḍa — no dhīra in (his) mouth.
मराठी: आणिकांच्या घातें — ज्यांचीं निवतील चित्तें — ते चि ओळखावे पापी — निरयवासी शीघ्रकोपी. कान पसरोनी — ऐके वदे दुष्ट वाणी. तुकाराम म्हणतात — भांडा — धीर नाहीं ज्याच्या तोंडा.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
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| आणिकांच्या घातें | "at others' ghāta (destruction / killing)" |
| ज्यांचीं निवतील चित्तें | "whose chitta (heart-mind) cools (= gets satisfied)" |
| ते चि ओळखावे पापी | "recognize them as pāpīs**" |
| निरयवासी शीघ्रकोपी | "niraya-vāsī (hell-dwellers), śīghra-kopī (quick-tempered)" |
| कान पसरोनी | "spreading the ear" |
| ऐके वदे दुष्ट वाणी | "hears (and) speaks duṣṭa-vāṇī (wicked-speech)" |
| भांडा धीर नाहीं ज्याच्या तोंडा | "bhāṇḍa (quarreler) — no dhīra (patience) in (his) mouth" |
What it means
A schadenfreude-diagnostic abhang. Three claims:
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आणिकांच्या घातें — ज्यांचीं निवतील चित्तें — whose chitta cools at others' destruction. The schadenfreude-diagnostic. Chitta — heart-mind. Cools (nivaṇē) — gets satisfied, finds rest. When another's destruction is what cools your chitta, you have failed the bhakta-test. The schadenfreude is itself the diagnostic of pāpī-status.
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ते चि ओळखावे पापी — निरयवासी शीघ्रकोपी — recognize them as pāpīs; niraya-vāsī, śīghra-kopī. The labels. Pāpī (sinner), niraya-vāsī (hell-dweller), śīghra-kopī (quick-tempered). Quick-temper is also a marker — the short-fuse combined with cooling-at-others-destruction is the pāpī-pattern.
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कान पसरोनी — ऐके वदे दुष्ट वाणी — spreading the ear, hears (and) speaks wicked-speech. The ear-and-tongue pattern. The pāpī actively spreads the ear (= eagerly listens) for wicked-speech; and speaks the wicked-speech (= passes it on). The eagerly-listening + passing-on is the speech-mark.
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तुका म्हणे भांडा — धीर नाहीं ज्याच्या तोंडा — Tuka says: bhāṇḍa — no dhīra in his mouth. The closing-image. Bhāṇḍa — quarreler, scold, vessel-of-noise. No dhīra (patience) in his mouth — the mouth speaks impulsively, without restraint. (Compare 274's dhīra makes hira; here, no-dhīra makes bhāṇḍa.)
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For someone today
This abhang names a precise schadenfreude-diagnostic:
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Cooling-at-others'-destruction is the diagnostic. Āṇikāñcyā ghātē — jyāñcīm nivatīla chittē. If you find your chitta cooling-and-satisfied when someone else is destroyed (= fired, divorced, embarrassed, defeated) — that is the pāpī-diagnostic. Don't moderate this recognition into only-when-it-is-the-truly-evil-being-destroyed; the cooling-at-others' destruction is itself the failure-mode.
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Schadenfreude pairs with quick-temper. Niraya-vāsī, śīghra-kopī. The short-fuse and the satisfaction-at-others'-destruction are paired markers. They occur together.
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Ear-spread + tongue-passes-on. The speech-mark: eager-listening to wicked-speech + passing-it-on. If you find yourself eagerly-attending-to gossip / scandal / news-of-others'-failure and passing-it-on, recognize the pāpī-pattern.
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No-dhīra in the mouth = bhāṇḍa. Mouth without patience — speaks impulsively, scolds, quarrels. If your mouth has no dhīra, you are bhāṇḍa in the diagnostic-sense.
For today: check your chitta when others are destroyed; if cooling-and-satisfaction — recognize the pāpī-pattern; check the ear-tongue for the eager-listening-and-passing-on of wicked-speech; cultivate dhīra in the mouth.
This abhang is important psychologically: it names schadenfreude as the failure-mode directly, without softening. Most people's immediate reaction to others' destruction is some-degree of cooling-satisfaction; Tukaram's pāpī-diagnostic applies if this is the dominant-response.
मराठी: ही ओवी precise schadenfreude-diagnostic नाव सांगते:
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इतरांच्या destruction वर chitta cooling diagnostic. आणिकांच्या घातें — ज्यांचीं निवतील चित्तें. कुणी destroy होतो (= fired, divorced, embarrassed, defeated) आणि तुमचं chitta cooling-and-satisfied होतं — pāpī-diagnostic. Recognition moderate करू नका — फक्त-truly-evil-being-destroyed असल्यासच — cooling-at-others' destruction स्वतः failure-mode.
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Schadenfreude quick-temper सह pair. निरय-वासी, शीघ्र-कोपी. Short-fuse आणि others'-destruction-satisfaction — paired markers. एकत्र होतात.
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Ear-spread + tongue-passes-on. Speech-mark: wicked-speech ला eager-listening + passing-on. तुम्ही gossip / scandal / others'-failure-news ला eagerly-attend करत असाल आणि passing-on करत असाल — pāpī-pattern ओळखा.
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मुखात dhīra* नाही = bhāṇḍa. Patience-शिवाय mouth — impulsively बोलतं, scold, quarrel करतं. तुमच्या मुखाला dhīra नसेल — bhāṇḍa diagnostic-sense मध्ये*.
आज: इतर destroy होताना chitta check करा; cooling-and-satisfaction — pāpī-pattern ओळखा; ear-tongue check करा — wicked-speech ला eager-listening-and-passing-on; मुखात dhīra cultivate करा.
Psychologically महत्त्वाचं: schadenfreude failure-mode म्हणून directly नाव सांगते, softening शिवाय. बहुतेक लोकांचं इतरांच्या destruction वर immediate-reaction — काही-degree cooling-satisfaction; तुकारामांचं pāpī-diagnostic हे dominant-response असेल तर लागू.
Where this applies
- Cooling-at-others'-destruction is the diagnostic. Don't moderate.
- Schadenfreude pairs with quick-temper. Both together.
- Ear-spread + tongue-passes-on. Speech-mark.
- Bhāṇḍa = no-dhīra-in-mouth. Cultivate dhīra.