Abhanga 3457
Tukaram publicly warns everyone not to shelter the deceptive illusion that leads people astray, and calls for it to be openly exposed and shamed.
The verse
देवाच्या निरोपें पिटितों डांगोरा । लाजे नका थारा देऊं कोणी ॥१॥
मोडिलें या रांडे सुपंथ मारग । चालविलें जग यमपंथें ॥ध्रु.॥
परिचारीं केली आपुली च रूढी । पोटींची ते कुडी ठावी नाहीं ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे आणा राउळा धरून । फजित करून सोडूं मग ॥३॥
Literal translation
Devāñcyā niropa piṭitōm ḍāngōrā — by Deva's order, I beat the drum; lāje nakā thāra deūm kōṇī — don't anyone give shelter. Mōḍile yā rāṇḍe supamtha mārga — this rāṇḍa broke the good-path; chālavile jaga yama-pamthe — led jaga on yama-path. Parichārīm kelī āpulī cha rūḍhī — in dealings, made her own rules; pōṭīmñcī te kuḍī ṭhāvī nāhī — her inner-treachery not known. Tukā mhaṇe āṇā rāuḷā dharūna — Tukā says: bring her by-force to rāūḷa; phajita karūna sōḍūm maga — make phajitī then release.
What it means
The cluster's-closing: Tukārām (as-Deva's-crier) drums-the-public-warning against māyā — don't-shelter-her; she's-led-the-world-to-yama; bring-her-to-court and-publicly-shame-her.
For someone today
Tukārām's resolve: publicly-renounce-māyā as-Deva's-herald.
Where this applies
- Anti-māyā cluster close
- Public-drum-beat against-māyā canonical-image
- Phajitī-then-release shame-justice