Abhanga 788

This abhang names the anti-Shakti-worshipper pattern:

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A all-pāpas-formed-into-one-Śakti-upāsaka-his-viṭāḷa-not-on-my-body-no-fear-of-pāpa abhang. Anti-Śakti-upāsaka register. Three claims:

1. अवघ्या-पापें-घडला-एक — Śakti-उपासक — त्याचा-विटाळ-नको-अंगा — Pāṇḍuranga माझ्या. All-pāpas-into-one-Śakti-upāsaka-don't-touch-claim. Allpāpascombined-into-one — that is theŚakti-upāsaka; don't let hisviṭāḷa(impurity, defilement) come onto my body —my Pāṇḍuranga. Śakti-upāsaka-is-pile-of-all-pāpas; don't-let-him-touch-the-bhakta.

2. काम-क्रोध-मद्य-अंगीं — अवगुणी-रंगीं-रंगला. Kāma-krōdha-madya-on-body-color-of-avaguṇa-claim. Kāma-krōdha-madya (lust-anger-alcohol) on the body—colored (rangalā) with the ranga (color) of avaguṇa (faults).Body-stained-with-kāma-krōdha-madya-and-avaguṇa-color.

3. Tuka: करितां-पाप-न-धरी-शंका — कोणी-ही. No-fear-of-pāpa-claim. Tuka says: doingpāpa, he holds no śankā (fear, hesitation, doubt);kōṇī hī(no-one — (no-one-else-would-act-thus / he doesn't-fear-anyone)). No-shame-no-fear-anywhere.

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For someone today

This abhang names the anti-Shakti-worshipper pattern:

1. The Shakti-worshipper is all sins formed into one; his impurity should not touch my body — my Pandurang. All sins in one person.

2. Lust, anger, and drink are on his body, colored with faults. His body is stained.

3. He does wrong without any fear or hesitation. No fear in doing wrong.

For today: the Shakti-worshipper described here (the antinomian tantric practitioner following the five forbidden substances) is all sins rolled into one person; his impurity should not touch the devotee's body — my Pandurang; lust, anger, and drink mark his body, colored with faults; and he commits wrong without any hesitation, as no one else would dare.

This abhang is one of Tukaram's harshest statements against Shakta tantric practice, warning that such a person's impurity must not be allowed to touch the devotee. Compare 0785, where the same anti-Shakta polemic appears in the image of the donkey carrying piles of sin that the goddess Bhagavati takes on — the same condemnation, but here adding the explicit demand that his impurity not touch the devotee's body. "All sins formed into one" is the precise, summary charge against him.

मराठी: ही ओवी शक्ति-उपासक-विरोधी नमुना सांगते:

1. शक्ति-उपासक म्हणजे सगळी पापे एकत्र झालेली एकच व्यक्ती; त्याचा विटाळ माझ्या अंगाला — पांडुरंगाला — लागू नये. एकाच व्यक्तीत सगळी पापे.

2. काम, क्रोध, मद्य त्याच्या अंगावर, अवगुणांच्या रंगात रंगलेले. त्याचे शरीर मलिन.

3. तो कोणतीही शंका न बाळगता पाप करतो. पाप करताना भीती नाही.

आजसाठी: इथे वर्णिलेला शक्ति-उपासक (पंचमकार आचरणारा तांत्रिक) म्हणजे सगळी पापे एकवटलेली एकच व्यक्ती आहे; त्याचा विटाळ भक्ताच्या अंगाला — माझ्या पांडुरंगाला — लागू नये; काम, क्रोध, मद्य त्याच्या अंगावर आहेत, अवगुणांच्या रंगात रंगलेले; आणि तो कोणतीही शंका न बाळगता पाप करतो, जसे दुसरा कोणी करण्याचे धाडस करणार नाही.

ही ओवी शाक्त तांत्रिक आचरणाविरुद्ध तुकारामांच्या सर्वात कठोर विधानांपैकी एक आहे, अशा व्यक्तीचा विटाळ भक्ताला स्पर्श करू नये असा इशारा देणारी. ओवी क्र. ०७८५ शी तुलना करता येईल — तिथेही हाच शाक्त-विरोधी वाद आहे, गाढवाच्या पाठीवरील पापांच्या राशी भगवती स्वतःवर घेते या प्रतिमेतून — तीच निंदा, पण इथे स्पष्टपणे भक्ताच्या अंगाला त्याचा विटाळ लागू नये अशी मागणी जोडलेली आहे. "सगळी पापे एकत्र झालेली एक" हाच त्याच्याविरुद्धचा नेमका, संक्षिप्त आरोप आहे.

Where this applies

• When you feel pulled into the company of someone whose habits of anger, lust, or addiction keep dragging you down
• When you notice a person who does wrong without any shame or hesitation and treat their behavior as normal
• When you are trying to protect your own peace of mind or spiritual practice from someone else's toxic influence
• When you need permission to distance yourself from a relationship that keeps staining your integrity

Related verses

• Abhanga 2374 — Rather than scattering devotion among many lesser deities who demand offerings, Tukaram sa
• Abhanga 2377 — This detailed meditation on Vitthal standing on a brick at Pandharpur, out of love for his
• Abhanga 2387 — Accept whatever life brings with reverence, and place the burden on God rather than carryi
• Abhanga 2402 — For today: happily take rebirths — IF among the Paṇḍharī-Vārkarīs ; Hari-dāsas' company is