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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3995 of 4582

Abhanga 3995

Gabāḷā-of-granthas — mithyā-bhēda-vāda.

The verse

गाबाळाचे ग्रंथीं कां रे पडां सदा । मिथ्या भेदवादा वागवितां ॥१॥ संसारगाबाळीं पडसी निखळ । जालासी तूं खळ तेणें मना ॥ध्रु.॥ साधनसंकटीं गुंतसी कासया । व्यर्थ गा अपायामाजी गुंती ॥२॥ निर्मळ फुकाचें नाम गोविंदाचें । अनंतजन्माचे फेडी मळ ॥३॥ तुका म्हणे नको करूं कांहीं कष्ट । नाम वाचे स्पष्ट हरि बोलें ॥४॥

Literal translation

Gabāḷā-of-granthas — mithyā-bhēda-vāda. Samsāra-gabāḷī — mana-khaḷa. Sādhana-samkaṭa — vyartha-apāya. Nirmaḷa-phukāchē-Name — clears-mala-of-ananta-janmas. Tukā: no-kaṣṭa — speak-Name-clearly.

What it means

★ A 4-verse anti-effort canonical. Why fall into the jumble of books — carrying false division-disputes? You've fallen into the world's jumble; your mind has become a wicked-one by it. Why entangled in the trouble-of-practices — vain harm. The pure, free Name of Govinda clears the mud of countless births. Don't take any pain — just speak the Name clearly by tongue. The line nirmaḷa fukāchē Nāma — for free — clears ananta-janmas' mala is the canonical Tukārām free-and-effective-Name formulation. Pair with 3890 (no-tapa-tīrtha-mahā-dāna-no-dhana), 3743 (Name-is-everything).

For someone today

Tukārām: don't-get-tangled-in-the-jumble-of-books-or-the-trouble-of-practices — Name-is-free-and-clears-countless-births'-mud.

Where this applies

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