Abhanga 3112
Tukaram teaches that all the earth is pure and only craving is impure, that every being is divine, and that doubt itself is the real deceiver.
The verse
भूमि अवघी शुद्ध जाणा । अमंगळ हे वासना ॥१॥
तैसे वोसपले जीव । सांडी नसतां अंगीं घाव ॥ध्रु.॥
जीव अवघे देव । खोटा नागवी संदेह ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे शुद्ध । मग तुटलिया भेद ॥३॥
Literal translation
Bhūmi avaghī śuddha jāṇā — know all bhūmi (is) śuddha; amangaḷa he vāsanā — vāsanā (alone) is amangaḷa. Taise vōsapale jīva — so are the vōsapalē jīvas; sāṇḍī nasatām angīm ghāva — abandon-without (needing) a wound on body. Jīva avaghe deva — all jīvas are deva; khōṭā nāgavī samdeha — the doubt is khōṭā-nāgavī (false-deceiver). Tukā mhaṇe śuddha — Tukā says: pure; maga tuṭaliyā bheda — then bheda breaks.
What it means
A canonical 3-verse non-dual-claim by Tukārām.
The 4 claims: 1. All bhūmi (earth) is pure; only vāsanā is impure 2. Vōsapalē-jīvas are like-vāsanā — abandon-without-wound 3. All jīvas are Deva; doubt is the false-deceiver 4. (When one becomes) pure — then bheda breaks
The doctrinal-claim: purity is-not-locational; impurity is-only-vāsanā; all-jīvas-are-deva; the-only-deceiver is-doubt-itself. This is the bhakti-non-dual claim, pithy.
Compare-Tukārām's 3059 (non-dual-3-image: tree-seed, wave-water, bimba-chhāyā-vilaya), 3084 (vyāpaka-Hari).
For someone today
Tukārām's non-dual claim. Know that all the earth is pure — only vāsanā is impure. So are the wandering jīvas. Abandon (vāsanā) without (needing) a wound on the body. All jīvas are Deva; the doubt is the false-deceiver. (When one becomes) pure — then distinction breaks. The verse permits the canonical bhakti-non-dual: only-vāsanā-impure; all-jīvas-are-Deva.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's bhūmi-all-pure, impure-only-vāsanā non-dual-claim
- Companion to 3059, 3084