Abhanga 326

Simply speaking the names of saints, holding them on your tongue and in your mind, is enough to make you virtuous — no elaborate ritual or special qualification is required. Your voice never tires from this practice, and the reward it brings comes freely, without cost or effort. True rest is found not in worldly comfort but in devotion at the saints' feet — that is where the weary heart finds its resting place. And simply chanting their names, again and again, quietly washes away sin on its own.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A short saint-naming abhang. Three claims:

1. पुण्यवंत व्हावें — घेतां सज्जनांची नांवें — become puṇyavanta by taking sajjanas' names. The direct-mechanic. Just taking the names of the saints (= naming them in your speech, holding them in mind) makes you puṇyavanta. No further-ritual required.

2. नेघे माझे वाचे तुटी — महा लाभ फुकासाठी — my vāc gets no break — great lābha for free. The vāc (speech / voice) gets no tūṭi (break, exhaustion). Continual saint-naming — and the great-gain comes forfukā(free). (Compare 197 fukā nāma āle; 315 Viṭhobā-name sulabha-sōpārē.)

3. विश्रांतीचा ठाव — पायीं संतांचिया भाव — the viśrānti place — bhāva at saints' feet. The resting-place. Where to rest — in bhāva at the saints' feet. (Bhāva-at-the-saints'-feet is the bhakta's home. Compare 264 real-kin remember Viṭhobā's feet.)

4. तुका म्हणे जपें — संतांचिया जाती पापें — Tuka says: by japa — saints' — pāpas go. The closing-claim. Japa-of-saints'-names removes pāpas. (Compare 285 Hanumat-japa removes sins; 258 anutāpa-with-hari-smaraṇa frees.)

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For someone today

Simply speaking the names of saints, holding them on your tongue and in your mind, is enough to make you virtuous — no elaborate ritual or special qualification is required. Your voice never tires from this practice, and the reward it brings comes freely, without cost or effort. True rest is found not in worldly comfort but in devotion at the saints' feet — that is where the weary heart finds its resting place. And simply chanting their names, again and again, quietly washes away sin on its own.

मराठी: संतांची नावे नुसती जिभेवर आणि मनात घेणे हेच पुण्यवान होण्यासाठी पुरेसे आहे — त्यासाठी कोणतीही मोठी विधी किंवा विशेष पात्रता लागत नाही. या सरावाने वाणी कधी थकत नाही, आणि त्याचे फळ कोणताही खर्च किंवा प्रयत्नाशिवाय आपोआप मिळते. खरी विश्रांती ऐहिक सुखात नसून संतांच्या चरणी असलेल्या भावात असते — तिथेच थकलेल्या मनाला खरा विसावा मिळतो. आणि केवळ त्यांचे नामस्मरण वारंवार करत राहिल्याने पाप आपोआप, हळूहळू धुतले जाते.

Where this applies

• Saints'-name-taking makes puṇyavanta. Direct-mechanic, no qualifications.
• Vācgets no break; gain isfukā. Sustainable, free.
• Viśrānti at saints' feet via bhāva. Where to rest.
• Japaremovespāpa. Automatic karmic-effect.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and
• Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with
• Abhanga 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-center
• Abhanga 2557 — For today: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine .