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Abhanga 3435

You can tell God has truly entered a life by real changes, less pride, less craving, more honesty, and a growing sense that everything is connected.

When you want an honest way to check whether your spiritual practice is really changing you.

When you notice your pride softening and craving losing its old grip on you.

When your words stop needing exaggeration or dishonesty and simply become truthful.

The verse

देवाची ते खूण आला ज्याच्या घरा । त्याच्या पडे चिरा मनुष्यपणा ॥१॥ देवाची ते खूण करावें वाटोंळें । आपणा वेगळें कोणी नाहीं ॥ध्रु.॥ देवाची ते खूण गुंतों नेदी आशा । ममतेच्या पाशा शिवों नेदी ॥२॥ देवाची ते खूण गुंतों नेदी वाचा । लागों असत्याचा मळ नेदी ॥३॥ देवाची ते खूण तोडी मायाजाळ । आणि हें सकळ जग हरी ॥४॥ पहा देवें तेंचि बळकाविलें स्थळ । तुक्यापें सकळ चिन्हें होतीं ॥५॥

Literal translation

Deva's-mark — comes-to-house, manuṣya-paṇā-breaks-with-chirā. Makes-vāṭōḷē — no-one-separate-from-self. Doesn't-let-āśā-entangle, mamatā-pāśa-not-touch. Doesn't-let-vāchā-entangle, asatya-maḷa-not-attach. Breaks-māyā-jāḷa — jaga-becomes-Hari. Look — Deva-fortified-sthaḷa — Tukyāpē sakaḷa-chinhē.

What it means

THE CANONICAL dēvāchī tē khūṇa (Lord's-marks) abhang — 5-fold diagnostic-signs that Deva has come to someone: 1. manuṣya-paṇā (human-pride) breaks 2. vāṭōḷē (wandering, rolled-up); no-one-is-separate-from-self 3. āśā doesn't entangle, mamatā-pāśa doesn't touch 4. vāchā doesn't entangle, asatya-maḷa doesn't attach 5. māyā-jāḷa is broken; all this jaga becomes Hari

Closes with self-witness: in Tukā, all the signs are present. The most-direct how-do-you-know-Lord-has-come diagnostic text.

For someone today

Tukārām's CANONICAL bhakti-diagnostic: these are the marks of the Lord's coming — check yourself against them.

Where this applies

THE canonical dēvāchī tē khūṇa 6-verse
Foundational bhakti-diagnostic (5 signs)
all this jaga becomes Hari line
Closes with self-witness — Tukā has all the signs

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