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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3457 of 4582

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.

Anti-māyā cluster (3455-3457) close — public-shaming proclamation

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 ḍāngōrāby Deva's order, I beat the drum; lāje nakā thāra deūm kōṇīdon't anyone give shelter. Mōḍile yā rāṇḍe supamtha mārgathis rāṇḍa broke the good-path; chālavile jaga yama-pamtheled jaga on yama-path. Parichārīm kelī āpulī cha rūḍhīin dealings, made her own rules; pōṭīmñcī te kuḍī ṭhāvī nāhīher inner-treachery not known. Tukā mhaṇe āṇā rāuḷā dharūnaTukā says: bring her by-force to rāūḷa; phajita karūna sōḍūm magamake 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