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Abhanga 2366

English: Sell where there's a buyer — naming mud as bukā [sandalwood-paste].

The verse

विकल तेथें विका । माती नांव ठेवूनि बुका ॥१॥ हा तो निवाड्याचा ठाव । खर्‍या खोट्या निवडी भाव ॥ध्रु.॥ गर्‍हवारे हा विधि । पोट वाढविलें चिंधीं ॥२॥ लावूं जाणे विल्हे। तुका साच आणिक कल्हे ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: Sell where there's a buyer — naming mud as bukā [sandalwood-paste]. ★ This is the place-of-test — true and false separated by bhāva ★. The [false-]pregnancy-rite — belly enlarged with rags. Those who know how to plant the row — ★ Tukā is real, others are kalhē [sham/noise] ★.

What it means

★ MUD-AS-BUKĀ + FALSE-PREGNANCY ABHANG ★. Fifth of Sālōmālō-anti-plagiarist cluster (2363-2370).

The mud-as-sandalwood: vikala tēthē vikā — mātī nāmva ṭhēvūni bukāsell where there's a buyer — naming mud as bukā. Bukā = sandalwood-paste, perfumed-powder. Sell-where-there's-a-buyer; naming-mud as-bukā (= passing-off worthless-thing as-valuable).

★ THE BHĀVA-TEST ★: hā tō nivāḍyāchā ṭhāva — kharyā khōṭyā nivaḍī bhāva★ this is the place-of-test — true and false separated by bhāva ★. Nivāḍa = test, judgment. Bhāva = inner-feeling, devotional-quality. ★ This is-the-place-of-test; bhāva separates true-from-false. ★ The bhakta's-inner-bhāva is-the-authentic-test of-poetry, not external-form.

The false-pregnancy: garhavārē hā vidhi — pōṭa vāḍhavilē chindhīmthe [false-]pregnancy-rite — belly enlarged with rags. Garhavāra = pregnancy. Chindhī = rags. The false-pregnancy-rite — belly-enlarged-with-rags (= padded-false-fullness).

★ THE CLOSING ★: lāvūm jāṇē vilhē — Tukā sācha āṇika kalhēthose who know how to plant the row — ★ Tukā is real, others are kalhē (sham/noise) ★. Vilhē = seed-row, planting-row. Kalhē = empty-noise, sham. ★ Those-who-know-how-to-plant-the-seed-row (= cultivate genuine-bhakti); Tukā is-real (sācha), others-are-kalhē (mere-noise). ★

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For someone today

For today: mud sold as bukā; ★ bhāva separates true from false ★; false pregnancy with rag-padded belly; ★ Tukā is real, others are sham ★*.

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