Abhanga 2417
English: Ask in your own place — emptying out ahankāra.
The verse
पुसावें तें ठाईं आपुल्या आपण । अहंकारा शून्य घालूनियां ॥१॥ येर वाग्जाळ मायेचा अहंकार । वचनाशीं थार अज्ञान तें ॥ध्रु.॥ फळ तें चि बीज बीज तें ची फळ । उपनांवें मूळ न पालटे ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे अवघे गव्हांचे प्रकार । सोनें अलंकार मिथ्या नांव ॥३॥
Literal translation
English: Ask in your own place — emptying out ahankāra. Word-net is māyā's ahankāra — refuge in words is ignorance. ★ Fruit is seed, seed is fruit — names don't change the root ★. ★ Tuka says: all are wheat-varieties — gold's-ornaments are name-only-illusion ★.
What it means
★★ THE FRUIT-IS-SEED + GOLD-AS-ORNAMENT-NAMES-ARE-ILLUSION ABHANG ★★. A celebrated non-dual identity statement.
The empty-ahankāra: pusāvē tē ṭhāīm āpulyā āpaṇa — ahankārā śūnya ghālūniyām — ask in your own place — emptying out ahankāra. Ask-in-your-own-place (= self-inquiry); emptying-out ahankāra.
★ THE FRUIT-IS-SEED IDENTITY ★: phaḷa tē chi bīja bīja tē chi phaḷa — upanāmvē mūḷa na palaṭē — ★ fruit is seed, seed is fruit — names don't change the root ★. ★ Fruit-is-seed, seed-is-fruit; names (upa-nāma) don't-change the-root (mūḷa). ★ Cyclical-identity — the fruit-contains-the-seed which-becomes-the-fruit; the underlying-root is-the-same regardless of naming.
★ THE GOLD-ORNAMENT IDENTITY ★: Tukā mhaṇē avaghē gavhāñchē prakāra — sōnē alankāra mithyā nāmva — ★ all are wheat-varieties — gold's-ornaments are name-only-illusion ★. ★ All-(forms-of-wheat-flour-products) are-wheat-varieties; gold's-ornaments are mithyā-nāma (false-names). ★ The names (bangle, necklace, ring) differ; the gold underneath is-one. Vedāntic identity-doctrine in concrete-image: forms-vary, substance-is-one.
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For someone today
For today: ask in your own place, empty ahankāra; word-net is māyā; ★ fruit-is-seed, seed-is-fruit ★; ★ all are wheat-varieties — gold's ornaments are name-only-illusion ★*.
Where this applies
- Fruit-is-seed-names-don't-change-root. Phaḷa-bīja-upanāmvē-mūḷa-na-palaṭē.
- Gold-ornaments-are-name-only-illusion. Gavhāñchē-prakāra-sōnē-alankāra-mithyā-nāmva.