Abhanga 834
Lust and greed are twin addictions: both destroy discernment, betray themselves outwardly, and lead to the same suffering.
The verse
कामातुर चवी सांडी । बरळ तोंडीं बरळे ॥१॥ रंगलें तें अंगीं दावी । विष देववी आसडे ॥ध्रु.॥ धनसोसें लागे वेड । ते बडबड शमेना ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे वेसनें दोन्ही । नर्कखाणी भोगावया ॥३॥
Literal translation
Kāmāturā — cavī — sāṇḍī. Baraḷa — tōṇḍa — baraḷē. Rangalē — anga — shows. Viṣa — devavī — āsaḍē. Dhana-sōsa — vēḍa — comes. Baḍa-baḍa — doesn't-subside. Tuka says: vēsana — both — narka-khāṇī — bhōgāvayā.
मराठी: कामातुर चवी सांडतो — तोंडीं बरळ बरळतो. रंगलेलं तें-च अंगीं दावतं — विष देववून आसडतं. धन-सोसें वेड लागतं — ती बडबड शमत-नाहीं. Tuka म्हणे: दोन्ही वेसनें — नर्क-खाणी भोगायला.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| कामातुर चवी सांडी | "kāmāturā — cavī — sāṇḍī (loses)" |
| बरळ तोंडीं बरळे | "baraḷa — tōṇḍa — baraḷē" |
| रंगलें तें अंगीं दावी | "rangalē — anga — shows" |
| विष देववी आसडे | "viṣa — devavī — āsaḍē" |
| धनसोसें लागे वेड | "dhana-sōsa — vēḍa — comes" |
| ते बडबड शमेना | "that — baḍa-baḍa — doesn't-subside" |
| वेसनें दोन्ही | "vēsana — both" |
| नर्कखाणी भोगावया | "narka-khāṇī — bhōgāvayā" |
What it means
A lust-driven-loses-taste-babbles-color-shows-on-body-poison-jolted-wealth-craving-madness-babble-not-subsides-two-addictions-are-mines-of-narka abhang. Twin-addictions-narka-mines register. Three claims:
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कामातुर-चवी-सांडी — बरळ-तोंडीं-बरळे. Lust-driven-loses-taste-claim. Thekāmāturā (the lust-driven, the kāma-afflicted) — loses cavī (taste, discernment-of-flavor; metaphorically: discernment-of-good-and-bad);(he) baraḷa (nonsense, drivel, irrelevant-babble) is what baraḷē (he babbles) in his tōṇḍa (mouth).Lust-loses-taste; babbles-nonsense. (Kāma destroys-discernment; the kāma-afflicted-mouth produces only-babble.)
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रंगलेलं-तें-अंगीं-दावी — विष-देववून-आसडे. Color-shows-on-body-poison-jolted-claim. Whatever (he is)rangalē (colored-with — i.e., what-his-passions-stain-him-with) shows on his anga (body — his very-self betrays it);the viṣa (poison — the kāma-poison) is āsaḍē (jolted-out / flung-out / ejaculated) by-being devavī (made-to-give, caused-to-discharge).Color-shows-on-body; poison-violently-thrown-out. (Two-images: the body-shows-the-color-of-passion (you-can-see-it); and the kāma-poison isjolted-out — ejaculated, expressed, violently-discharged.)
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धन-सोसें-वेड — बडबड-शमत-नाहीं — Tuka: दोन्ही-वेसनें-नर्क-खाणी. Wealth-craving-madness-and-two-addictions-narka-mines-claim. Withdhana-sōsa (the wealth-greed, the accumulation-craving), vēḍa (madness) comes;the baḍa-baḍa (babbling — the babble of the dhana-mad) doesn't śamēnā (subside);Tuka says: both vēsanas(the two-addictions — kāma and dhana) arenarka-khāṇī (mines-of-narka — pits-of-hell) to suffer-in.Wealth-madness; both-addictions-are-narka-pits. (Tuka's twin-warning: kāma-and-dhana — lust-and-greed — are thetwoaddictions; both arenarka-khāṇī.)
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For someone today
When you're consumed by lust, you lose your sense of taste and judgment: you start talking nonsense, and whatever you're indulging in shows on your body, so you can't hide it. Wealth-craving works the same way, becoming a kind of madness, an endless restless chatter in the mind that never settles. Tukaram calls both of these, lust and greed, twin addictions, and warns that both lead you into the same pit of suffering. Recognizing them for what they are is the first step to freeing yourself.
मराठी: जेव्हा वासनेने तुमचा ताबा घेतला, तेव्हा तुमची विवेकबुद्धी हरवते — तुम्ही बरळू लागता, आणि जे काही तुम्ही उपभोगता आहात ते तुमच्या शरीरावर उघड दिसू लागते; ते लपवता येत नाही. धनाची हाव अगदी तशीच काम करते: ती एक प्रकारचे वेड बनते, मनात सतत चाललेली अस्वस्थ बडबड जी कधीच शांत होत नाही. तुकाराम म्हणतात की वासना आणि हाव या दोन्ही जुळ्या व्यसनांसारख्या आहेत, आणि दोन्हीही तुम्हाला त्याच दुःखाच्या खाईत नेतात. त्यांना ओळखणे हेच त्यांच्यापासून मुक्त होण्याची पहिली पायरी आहे.
Where this applies
- Lust = babble. Diagnostic.
- Body shows. Self-betraying.
- Twin addictions. Kāma + dhana.
- Narka-mines. Warning.