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Abhanga 724

This abhang names the anutāpa-as-prāyaścitta register:

When anutāpa removes doṣa without even a moment — and you have to recognize this register
When the citta bathes in anutāpa as the only prāyaścitta — and you accept this image
When don't let pāpa touch the anutāpa — and you receive this final discipline

The verse

अनुतापें दोष । जाय न लगतां निमिष ॥१॥ परि तो राहे विसावला । आदीं अवसानीं भला ॥ध्रु.॥ हें चि प्रायिश्चत । अनुतापीं न्हाय चित्त ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे पापा । शिवों नये अनुतापा ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: Anutāpadōṣa — goes — nimiṣa not-taken. But he — visāvalā — at ādi-avasānabhalā. This-only is prāyaścittaanutāpīm-nhāya citta. Tuka says: pāpaśivōm-nayēanutāpa.

मराठी: अनुतापे दोष — निमिष न-लागतां जातो. परि तो राहे विसावला — आदीं-अवसानीं भला. हेच प्रायिश्चित — अनुतापीं न्हाय चित्त. Tuka म्हणे: पापा — शिवों नये — अनुतापा.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
अनुतापें दोष "anutāpadōṣa"
जाय न लगतां निमिष "goes — nimiṣa not-taken"
परि तो राहे विसावला "but — he — visāvalā"
आदीं अवसानीं भला "ādi-avasānabhalā"
हें चि प्रायिश्चत "this only — prāyaścitta"
अनुतापीं न्हाय चित्त "anutāpīmnhāya citta"
पापा शिवों नये अनुतापा "pāpaśivōm nayē — anutāpa"

What it means

A anutāpa-removes-doṣa-instantly-citta-bathes-in-anutāpa-don't-let-pāpa-touch-anutāpa abhang. Anutāpa-as-prāyaścitta register. Three claims:

  1. अनुतापें दोष — निमिष-न-लागतां जातो — पण तो विसावलेला राहे — आदीं-अवसानीं भला. Anutāpa-instant-and-rested-claim. By anutāpa (after-burning, the burning-up-of-regret), dōṣa (fault) goes — without taking even a nimiṣa (an eye-blink, an instant); but the (bhakta-in-anutāpa) remains visāvalā (rested, settled, at-ease); at ādi (beginning) and avasāna (end), bhalā (well, in good-state). Anutāpa-instantly-removes-fault-and-leaves-the-bhakta-rested-and-well.

  2. हेच प्रायिश्चित — अनुतापीं न्हाय चित्त. Anutāpa-bath-only-prāyaścitta-claim. This-only is prāyaścitta (atonement, the formal-rite-of-absolution); the citta nhāya (bathes) in anutāpa. Citta-bathes-in-anutāpa is the only-prāyaścitta-needed.

  3. Tuka: पापा शिवों नये अनुतापा. Don't-let-pāpa-touch-anutāpa-claim. Tuka says: don't let pāpa śivōm (touch) *anutāpa. Don't-let-pāpa-touch-the-anutāpa. (Reading: once anutāpa has cleansed the doṣa, don't let pāpa-anew come to touch / contaminate that very-anutāpa; protect the cleansed-state.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the anutāpa-as-prāyaścitta register:

  1. Anutāpa removes doṣa instantly; the bhakta remains rested and well. Anutāpa-instant.

  2. This is the only prāyaścitta — the citta bathes in anutāpa. Citta-bathes-in-anutāpa.

  3. Don't let pāpa touch the anutāpa. Protect-the-cleansed-state.

For today: anutāpa (genuine repentant after-burning) removes doṣa without even taking-a-moment; the bhakta becomes visāvalā — rested, settled; the only true prāyaścitta is the citta-bath in anutāpa; and: once cleansed, don't let pāpa-anew touch the anutāpa*.

This abhang is Tukaram's anutāpa-as-only-prāyaścitta registerone of the most-precise repentance-statements. Compare 0670 cāṇḍāḷa-cāṇḍāḷa-mahā-confession (Tukyā-bandhu's mudra); same confession-context but here approached through what works — the anutāpa-bath — rather than the confession-list. The pāpā śivōm nayē anutāpā line is precise: protect the cleansed-state from re-contamination.

मराठी: ही ओवी anutāpa-as-prāyaścitta register नाव सांगते:

  1. Anutāpa-ने दोष instantly जातो; bhakta visāvalā राहे. Anutāpa-instant.

  2. हेच प्रायिश्चित — अनुतापीं चित्त न्हाय. Citta-bathes.

  3. पापा अनुतापा शिवों नये. Protect-cleansed-state.

आज: Anutāpa (genuine-repentant-after-burning) doṣa-without-moment-तस-removes; Bhakta visāvalā — rested, settled; फक्त-true-prāyaścittacitta-bath in anutāpa; Cleansed-झाल्यावर, pāpa नव्याने anutāpa touch-नये.

Tukaram च-anutāpa-as-only-prāyaścitta-registerMost-precise repentance-statements पैकी एक. 0670 cāṇḍāḷa-cāṇḍāḷa-mahā-confession (Tukyā-bandhu mudra) compare; तीच confession-context पण इथे what worksanutāpa-bath — च्या मार्गाने, confession-list-च्या-नाही. Pāpā śivōm nayē anutāpā precise — cleansed-state protect from re-contamination.

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