Abhanga 2468
English: Brahma-jñāna becomes known in one day — immediately abhimāna dissolves.
The verse
ब्रम्हज्ञान तरी एके दिवसीं कळे । तात्काळ हा गळे अभिमान ॥१॥ अभिमान लागे शुकाचिये पाठी । व्यासें उपराटी दृष्टी केली ॥ध्रु.॥ जनकभेटीसी पाठविला तेणें । अभिमान नाणें खोटें केलें ॥२॥ खोटें करूनियां लाविला अभ्यासीं । मेरुशिखरासी शुक गेला ॥३॥ जाऊनियां तेणें साधिली समाधी । तुका म्हणे तधीं होतों आम्ही ॥४॥
Literal translation
English: Brahma-jñāna becomes known in one day — immediately abhimāna dissolves. ★ Abhimāna pursued Śuka — Vyāsa overturned the vision ★. Sent to meet Janaka — abhimāna's false-coin unmasked. Unmasked, set in practice — Śuka went to Meru-peak. ★★ Tuka says: achieved samādhī — at that time we were [there] ★★.
What it means
★★ THE ŚUKA-JANAKA EPISODE + TUKĀ-WAS-THERE PRESENCE-CLAIM ABHANG ★★.
The Purāṇic-narrative: 1. Śuka (son of Vyāsa) had Brahma-jñāna but-was-still-bound-by-abhimāna (pride-of-knowledge) 2. Vyāsa overturned-his-vision — saw through-Śuka's-pride 3. Sent-him-to-Janaka (the philosopher-king) — Janaka's-paradoxical-test unmasked Śuka's-false-coin-of-abhimāna 4. Once-unmasked, Śuka was-placed-in-real-practice and-went-to-Meru-śikhara to-achieve-samādhī
★★ THE PRESENCE-CLAIM ★★: jā'ūniyām tēṇē sādhilī samādhī — Tukā mhaṇē tadhīm hōtōm āmhī — ★★ achieved samādhī — at that time we were [there] ★★. ★★ When-Śuka achieved-samādhī-on-Meru, we (Tukā) were-there. ★★ A remarkable claim of-Tukārām's-presence-at-the-Purāṇic-event — perhaps asserting eternal-bhakta-witness-status across-yugas.
The theological-point: Brahma-jñāna is-quick (one-day); but abhimāna-of-knowledge is-the-trap. Even Śuka — the model-jñānī — needed Janaka's-test to-shed-abhimāna.
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For someone today
For today: Brahma-jñāna is quick; abhimāna is the trap; Śuka needed Janaka's-test; ★★ Tukā witnessed Śuka's samādhī ★★*.
Where this applies
- Abhimāna-pursues-even-Śuka-needs-Janaka's-test. Abhimāna-Śukāchiyē-pāṭhī-Janaka-bhēṭīsī.
- Tukā-was-there-at-Śuka's-samādhī. Sādhilī-samādhī-tadhīm-hōtōm-āmhī.