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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2958 of 4582

Abhanga 2958

Jyāsī viṣayāñce dhyāna — (for one) whose dhyāna is on viṣaya (sense-objects); tyāsī kaiñcā Nārāyaṇa — for him, where (is) Nārāyaṇa?

The what-doesn't-belong-where; mismatched-states discrimination text
Recognizing viṣaya-dhyāna and Nārāyaṇa are mutually-exclusive
Anti-śaṭa-brahma-jñānī polemic

The verse

ज्यासी विषयाचें ध्यान । त्यासी कैंचा नारायण ॥१॥ साधु कैंचा पापीयासी । काय चांडाळासी काशी ॥ध्रु.॥ काय पतितासी पिता । काय अधमासी गीता ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे निरंजनी । शट कैंचा ब्रम्हज्ञानी ॥३॥

Literal translation

Jyāsī viṣayāñce dhyāna(for one) whose dhyāna is on viṣaya (sense-objects); tyāsī kaiñcā Nārāyaṇafor him, where (is) Nārāyaṇa? Sādhu kaiñcā pāpīyāsīwhere (is the) sādhu for a pāpī?; kāya chāṇḍāḷāsī Kāśīwhat (is) Kāśī for a chāṇḍāḷa? Kāya patitāsī pitāwhat (is the) pitā for a patita; kāya adhamāsī Gītāwhat (is the) Gītā for an adhama? Tukā says: niranjanīin the niranjana (pure-realm); śaṭa kaiñcā brahma-jñānīwhat (is the place for) a śaṭa (deceiver, fraud) (calling himself) brahma-jñānī**?

What it means

A short impossibility-list discrimination verse. The structure: five-fold-list of mismatched-pairings — each item-and-its-supposed-context cannot-coexist when-the-inner-state is-wrong.

Verse 1: Jyāsī viṣayāñce dhyāna — tyāsī kaiñcā Nārāyaṇawhose dhyāna on viṣaya — for him, where Nārāyaṇa? The opening-rule.

Verses 2-3 (the list): - sādhu and pāpī — the wicked-one cannot-meet-the-saint - Kāśī and chāṇḍāḷa — pilgrimage doesn't-help-the-degraded - pitā and patita — even-the-father is-lost-on-the-fallen - Gītā and adhama — scripture is-lost-on-the-base-conduct

The close: Tukā mhaṇe niranjanī — śaṭa kaiñcā brahma-jñānīin the niranjana, where the śaṭa (fraud) (calling himself) brahma-jñānī. The pure-realm has no-place-for the fake-brahma-jñānī.

For someone today

A useful impossibility-list discrimination text. Whose dhyāna (is) on viṣaya — where (is) Nārāyaṇa? Where (is the) sādhu for a pāpī? What (is) Kāśī for a chāṇḍāḷa? What (is the) pitā for a patita? What (is the) Gītā for an adhama? In the niranjana — what (place) for a śaṭa (fraud) (calling himself) brahma-jñānī? The verse-claim: outer-context cannot-overcome-wrong-inner-state. Five-fold-pairs all-make-the-same-point: the inner-disposition determines what-helps-and-what-doesn't. The pure-realm rejects the fake-brahma-jñānī.

Where this applies