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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3232 of 4582

Abhanga 3232

Tukārām's won't-fall-into-philosophical-fashions; only-Govinda

The verse

कोणाचिया न पडों छंदा । गोविंदासी आळवूं ॥१॥ बहुतांचीं बहु मतें । अवघे रिते पोकळ ॥ध्रु.॥ घटापटा ढवळी मन । होय सीण न करूं तें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे पांडुरंग । भरूं भाग आला तो ॥३॥

Literal translation

Won't-fall-into-anyone's-chanda; call-on-Govinda. Many-views are-rite-pōkaḷa. Ghaṭa-paṭa shakes-mana; that-is-sīṇa, we-won't. Tukā: Pāṇḍuranga our-bharu-bhāga came.

What it means

A 3-verse anti-philosophical-fashion text. Ghaṭa-paṭa refers to-the classical-Nyāya philosophical-disputes (using pot-and-cloth as standard-examples).

For someone today

Tukārām: don't-get-swept-up-in-philosophical-fashions — call-on-Govinda.

Where this applies

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