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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3451 of 4582

Abhanga 3451

Death respects no one's status, so don't be ashamed to say God's name now, while there's still time, for your own real good.

Tukārām's yama-doesn't-favor-prestige; say-Viṭṭhal-now mortality-warning

The verse

न धरी प्रतिष्ठा कोणाची यम । म्हणतां कां रे राम लाजा झणी ॥१॥ सांपडे हातींचें सोडवील काळा । तो कां वेळोवेळां नये वाचे ॥ध्रु.॥ कोण लोक जो हा सुटला तो एक । गेले कुंभपाक रवरवांत ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे हित तों म्हणा विठ्ठल । न म्हणे तो भोगील कळेल तें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Na dharī pratiṣṭhā kōṇāñcī yamayama holds no pratiṣṭhā of anyone; mhaṇatām kām re Rāma lājā jhaṇīwhy ashamed to say Rāma. Sāmpaḍe hātīmñce sōḍavīla kāḷāwhat's in hand, kāḷa will release; tō kām veḷō-veḷām naye vāchewhy doesn't (the Name) come to vāchā time-and-again. Kōṇa lōka jō hā suṭalā tō ekawho of people has escaped — one; gele kumbha-pāka ravarvāmtaall went to kumbha-pāka, raurava. Tukā mhaṇe hita tōm mhaṇā ViṭhṭhalaTukā says: say Viṭhṭhala for hita; na mhaṇe tō bhōgīla kaḷela teone who doesn't, will bhōga what (he'll) come-to-know.

What it means

A 3-verse mortality-warning. Yama-doesn't-respect-prestige; everyone-loses-what's-in-hand-to-Time; no-one-escapes-kumbha-pāka-raurava (worst-hells); so-say-Viṭhṭhala-for-hita.

For someone today

Tukārām's canonical mortality-warning: say-Viṭhṭhala-now, no-one-escapes.

Where this applies

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