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Abhanga 2452

The verse

आपुलिया आंगें तोडी मायाजाळ । ऐसें नाहीं बळ कोणापाशीं ॥१॥ रांडापोरें त्याग करी कुटुंबाचा । नावरे हे वाचा आणि मन ॥ध्रु.॥ हर्षामर्ष जों हे नाहीं जों जिराले । तोंवरि हे केले चार त्यांनीं ॥२॥ मुक्त जालों ऐसें बोलों जाये मुखें । तुका म्हणे दुःखें बांधला तो ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: ★ Tear māyā-net by your own body — no one has such strength ★. Renouncing wife-children, family — but speech and mind aren't subdued. Until joy-anger isn't digested — till then they make those four. ★ Saying "I'm mukta" with the mouth — Tuka says: bound by duḥkha ★.

What it means

★ THE ANTI-PRETENDER-MUKTI ABHANG ★.

The māyā-net-strength: āpuliyā āngē tōḍī māyā-jāḷa — aiśē nāhīm baḷa kōṇāpāśīm★ tear māyā-net by your own body — no one has such strength ★. No-one has-such-strength to-tear-the-māyā-net by-their-own-effort.

The empty-renouncement: rāṇḍā-pōrē tyāga karī kuṭumbāchā — nāvarē hē vāchā āṇi manarenouncing wife-children — but speech and mind not subdued. Outer-renouncement of-family doesn't-subdue speech-and-mind.

★ THE CLOSING ★: mukta jālōm aiśē bōlōm jāyē mukhē — Tukā mhaṇē duḥkhē bāndhalā tō★ saying "I'm mukta" with the mouth — bound by duḥkha ★. ★ The one who-mouths-mukti is-bound-by-duḥkha. ★ Anti-pseudo-mukti polemic: real-mukti is-not-a-mouth-claim.

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For someone today

For today: māyā-net not torn by self-effort; outer renouncement insufficient; ★ mouthing mukti = bound by duḥkha ★*.

Where this applies

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