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Abhanga 2380

The verse

पुराणप्रसिद्ध सीमा । नामतारकमहिमा ॥१॥ मागें जाळी महा दोष । पुढें नाही गर्भवास ॥ध्रु.॥ जें निंदिलें शास्त्रें । वंद्य जालें नाममात्रें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे ऐसा । त्रिभुवनीं नामठसा ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: ★ Purāṇa-famed limit — Name's saving-glory ★. ★ Burns past great-dōṣa — no future garbha-vāsa ★. ★ What śāstra blamed — becomes worshipful by mere Name ★. Tuka says: such — Name's stamp in tribhuvana.

What it means

★ NAME-SAVES-FROM-PAST-AND-FUTURE ABHANG ★.

★ THE PAST-AND-FUTURE-SAVING ★: māgē jāḷī mahā dōṣa — puḍhē nāhī garbha-vāsa★ burns past great-dōṣa — no future garbha-vāsa ★. ★ Burns-past great-dōṣa; no-future garbha-vāsa (womb-dwelling = rebirth). ★ The Name saves both-past-karma and-future-rebirth.

★ THE FAMOUS ŚĀSTRA-BLAMED-LINE ★: jē nindilē śāstrē — vandya jālē nāma-mātrē★ what śāstra blamed — becomes worshipful by mere Name ★. ★ What-the-śāstras blamed — becomes vandya (worshipful) by-mere-Name. ★ One of Tukārām's most-revolutionary bhakti-egalitarian-lines: even-those-blamed-by-śāstra (low-caste, sinful, outcaste) become-worshipful through-Name-utterance alone.

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For someone today

For today: Name's saving-glory; ★ burns past great-dōṣa, no future garbha-vāsa ★; ★ what śāstra blamed becomes worshipful by mere-Name ★; Name's stamp in tribhuvana.

Where this applies

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