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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 798 of 4582

Abhanga 798

Talking about renunciation while your heart still chases wealth and status is hollow, and words that don't match your actions carry real consequences.

When in kali-yuga, pāṣāṇḍas write poetry, frauds have multiplied — and you have to recognize this register
When mouth says tyāga but mind doesn't have it — and you accept this image
When Yama-daṇḍa for those who don't do as vāca says — and you receive this final verdict

The verse

कलियुगीं कवित्व करिती पाषांड । कुशळ हे भांड बहु जाले ॥१॥ द्रव्य दारा चित्तीं प्रजांची आवडी । मुखें बडबडी कोरडा चि ॥ध्रु.॥ डंव करी सोंग मानावया जग । मुखें बोले त्याग मनीं नाहीं ॥२॥ वेदाज्ञे करोनि न करिती स्वहित । नव्हती अलिप्त देहाहुनी ॥३॥ तुका म्हणे दंड साहील यमाचे । न करी जो वाचे बोले तैसें ॥४॥

Literal translation

Kali-yugapāṣāṇḍa — write poetry — clever — bhāṇḍa — many — became. Dravya-dārāprajāāvaḍīcitta — mouth — babble — dry. Fake — sōngajaga — mouth — tyāgamana — not. Vedājñāsva-hita — don't — aliptadeha — not. Tuka says: daṇḍaYama — suffer — don't-do — vāca — speaks.

मराठी: कलियुगीं कवित्व करिती पाषांड — कुशळ हे भांड बहु जाले. द्रव्य-दारा चित्तीं प्रजांची आवडी — मुखें बडबडी कोरडा-चि. डंव करी सोंग मानावया जग — मुखें बोले त्याग मनीं नाहीं. वेदाज्ञे करोनि न करिती स्व-हित — नव्हती अलिप्त देहाहुनी. Tuka म्हणे: दंड साहील यमाचे — न-करी जो वाचे बोले तैसें.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
कलियुगीं कवित्व करिती पाषांड "kali-yugapāṣāṇḍa — write poetry"
कुशळ हे भांड बहु जाले "clever — bhāṇḍa — many — became"
द्रव्य दारा चित्तीं प्रजांची आवडी "dravya-dārāprajāāvaḍī — in citta"
मुखें बडबडी कोरडा चि "mouth — babble — dry"
डंव करी सोंग मानावया जग "fake — sōnga — for-honor — jaga"
मुखें बोले त्याग मनीं नाहीं "mouth — says — tyāgamana — not"
वेदाज्ञे करोनि न करिती स्वहित "Vedājñā — by — don't — sva-hita"
नव्हती अलिप्त देहाहुनी "not — aliptadeha"
दंड साहील यमाचे "daṇḍa — suffer — Yama"
न करी जो वाचे बोले तैसें "don't-do — vāca — speaks"

What it means

A kali-yuga-pāṣāṇḍa-poetry-frauds-multiplied-mouth-babbles-tyāga-says-mind-doesn't-Yama-daṇḍa abhang. Kali-yuga-pāṣāṇḍa-poets register. Five claims:

  1. Kali-yuga-पाषाण्ड-कवित्व — कुशळ-भाण्ड-बहु. Pāṣāṇḍa-poetry-claim. Inkali-yuga, pāṣāṇḍa write poetry;clever bhāṇḍa (frauds) have bahu jālē (multiplied).Pāṣāṇḍa-bhakti-poetry-multiplied.

  2. द्रव्य-दारा-citta — मुखें-कोरडा-बडबडी. Dhana-dārā-mouth-dry-babble-claim. Dravya-dārā (wealth-and-women) and prajā (offspring)āvaḍīin thecitta; the mouth babbles dryly (kōraḍā-ci, hollow). Worldly-citta-but-dry-mouth-babbling.

  3. Sōnga-मानावया-जग — मुखें-त्याग-मनीं-नाहीं. Fake-sōnga-for-honor-claim. They fake thesōngato be-honored by thejaga; the mouth saystyāga; themanahas-not. Fake-sōnga-tyāga-on-mouth-not-in-mind.

  4. Vedājñā-not-स्व-हित — alipta-not-from-देह. Disobeying-Veda-not-detached-claim. They don't do theirsva-hitabyVedājñā (Vedic-injunction);they're-not alipta (detached) from the deha. Disobeying-Veda-and-not-detached.

  5. Tuka: दंड-Yama — न-करी-वाचे-बोले-तैसें. Yama-daṇḍa-for-not-acting-as-says-claim. Tuka says: (they) will suffer thedaṇḍaofYama; one who-doesn't-do-as thevācaspeaks. Yama-daṇḍa-for-vāca-not-acted.

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For someone today

Tukaram is calling out people who write clever spiritual verses and put on a show of holiness while their hearts are still chasing money, family status, and public approval. Their mouths talk about renunciation, but nothing has actually changed inside them; they never truly examine themselves or let go of their attachment to the body and its comforts. He warns that this gap between what you say and what you actually do has consequences, and that words without matching action eventually catch up with you.

मराठी: तुकाराम अशा लोकांना खडसावतात जे चतुर भक्तिकाव्य रचतात आणि पावित्र्याचा आव आणतात, पण त्यांचे मन अजूनही पैसा, कुटुंबाची प्रतिष्ठा आणि लोकांच्या वाहवाहीच्या मागे धावत असते. त्यांचे तोंड त्यागाच्या गप्पा मारते, पण आतून काहीच बदललेले नसते; ते कधी खरेखुरे आत्मपरीक्षण करत नाहीत किंवा देहाच्या सुखांची आसक्ती सोडत नाहीत. तुकाराम बजावतात की जे बोलतो आणि जे प्रत्यक्ष करतो यातील ही तफावत निष्परिणाम राहत नाही; शब्द आणि कृती जुळत नसतील तर त्याचे फळ शेवटी भोगावेच लागते.

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