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Abhanga 3867

The verse

विठ्ठलावांचोनि ब्रम्ह जें बोलती । वचन तें संतीं मानूं नये ॥१॥ विठ्ठलावांचूनि जेजे उपासना । अवघा चि जाणा संभ्रमु तो ॥ध्रु.॥ विठ्ठलावांचूनि सांगतील गोष्टी । वांयां ते हिंपुटी होत जाणा ॥२॥ विठ्ठलांवाचूनि जें कांहीं जाणती । तितुल्या वित्पित्त वाउगीया ॥३॥ तुका म्हणे एक विठ्ठल चि खरा । येर तो पसारा वाउगा चि ॥४॥

Literal translation

Apart-from-Viṭṭhal-Brahma-spoken — santas-don't-accept. Apart-from-Viṭṭhal-upāsanā — all-sambhrama. Apart-from-Viṭṭhal-stories — vain-himpuṭī. Apart-from-Viṭṭhal-known — vain-vitpitta. Tukā: one-Viṭṭhal-alone-true — rest-pasāra-vain.

What it means

★★ THE canonical 5-verse Viṭṭhalāvāñchōnī (apart-from-Viṭṭhal) exclusive-bhakti refrain. Apart from Viṭṭhal — what is spoken as Brahma — santas should not accept it. Apart from Viṭṭhal — whatever upāsanā — know it as confusion. Apart from Viṭṭhal — whatever stories they tell — know they're vain, growing-poor. Apart from Viṭṭhal — whatever they know — that much knowledge-acquisition is vain. One Viṭṭhal alone is real — the rest is a vain spread. Four-fold negation (Brahma-speech / upāsanā / stories / knowledge), then one-positive-affirmation. Pair with 3743 (Name-is-everything), 3795 (jaḷō-burn-everything-else), 3820 (na-kaḷē-by-anything). One of Tukārām's most direct Viṭṭhal-alone-is-real texts.

For someone today

Tukārām: apart-from-Viṭṭhal — Brahma-speech-upāsanā-stories-knowledge-all-vain; one-Viṭṭhal-alone-is-true.

Where this applies

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