Abhanga 2464
The verse
सुखरूप ऐसें कोण दुजें सांगा । माझ्या पांडुरंगा सारिकें तें ॥१॥ न लगे हिंडणें मुंडणें ते कांहीं । साधनाची नाहीं आटाआटी ॥ध्रु.॥ चंद्रभागे स्नान विध तो हरिकथा । समाधान चित्ता सर्वकाळ ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे काला वैकुंठीं दुर्लभ । विशेष तो लाभ संतसंग ॥३॥
Literal translation
English: ★ Tell me, who else is sukha-rūpa like my Pāṇḍuranga ★. ★★ No need for wandering or shaving — no pressure of sādhana ★★. Chandrabhāgā bath, rite is Hari-kathā — chitta-samādhāna always. ★★ Tuka says: kāla rare in Vaikuṇṭha — special gain is sant-sanga ★★.
What it means
★★★ THE NO-WANDERING-NO-SHAVING + SANT-SAṄGA-RARER-THAN-VAIKUṆṬHA ABHANG ★★★.
★★ THE ANTI-ASCETIC ★★: na lagē hiṇḍaṇē muṇḍaṇē tē kāmhīm — sādhanāchī nāhīm āṭā-āṭī — ★★ no need for wandering or shaving — no pressure of sādhana ★★. Hiṇḍaṇē = wandering (sannyāsi-pilgrimage). Muṇḍaṇē = shaving (head-shaving, sannyāsi-rite). ★★ NO-wandering, NO-shaving; no-sādhana-pressure (āṭā-āṭī). ★★ Direct rejection of-ascetic-tradition-requirements.
The substitute: Chandrabhāgē snāna vidha tō Hari-kathā — samādhāna chittā sarva-kāḷa — Chandrabhāgā bath, rite is Hari-kathā — chitta-samādhāna always. Chandrabhāgā-bath (at Pandharpur) is-enough; the rite (vidhi) is Hari-kathā; chitta-samādhāna is-always-there.
★★ THE CELEBRATED CLOSING ★★: Tukā mhaṇē kāla Vaikuṇṭhīm durlabha — viśēṣa tō lābha santa-sanga — ★★ kāla rare in Vaikuṇṭha — special gain is sant-sanga ★★. ★★ Even-in-Vaikuṇṭha, kāla (the special-time/festive-fellowship) is-rare; the-special-gain is santa-sanga (saint-company). ★★ One of the most-celebrated assertions of-saint-company's-supremacy — superior even to Vaikuṇṭha.
The combined claim: at-Pandharpur, Chandrabhāgā-bath + Hari-kathā + sant-sanga provides what-asceticism-and-even-Vaikuṇṭha cannot. The Vārkarī-superiority-claim of-place-and-practice.
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For someone today
For today: ★ Pāṇḍuranga is sukha-rūpa ★; ★★ no wandering, no shaving, no sādhana-pressure ★★; Chandrabhāgā bath = Hari-kathā; ★★ sant-sanga is rarer than Vaikuṇṭha ★★.
Where this applies
- No-wandering-no-shaving-no-sādhana-pressure. Na-lagē-hiṇḍaṇē-muṇḍaṇē-sādhanāchī-āṭā-āṭī.
- Sant-sanga-rarer-than-Vaikuṇṭha. Kāla-Vaikuṇṭhīm-durlabha-viśēṣa-lābha-santa-sanga.