Abhanga 4012
Kali-yuga-phaḷa — brahma-gōḷa-coming.
The verse
तुम्हां सांगतों कलयुगा फळ । पुढें होइल ब्रम्हगोळ ॥१॥
आम्हां म्हणतील कंटक । ऐसा पाडिती दंडक ॥ध्रु.॥
स्त्रिया पूजुनि सरे देती । भलते स्त्रियेसि भलते जाती ॥२॥
श्रेष्ठ वर्ण वेदविद्वांस । अंगीकारी मद्यमांस ॥३॥
चारी वर्ण अठरा याती । कवळ करिती एक पंक्ती ॥४॥
म्हणती अंबेचा क्रीडाकल्लोळ । शिवरूप प्राणी सकळ ॥५॥
ऐसें होइल शकुन देतों । अगोदर सांगुन जातों ॥६॥
तुका सद्गुरुदास्य करी । सिद्धि पाणी वाहे घरीं ॥७॥
Literal translation
Kali-yuga-phaḷa — brahma-gōḷa-coming. We'll-be-called-kaṇṭaka — daṇḍaka-set-down. Women-worshipped-arbitrary-any-jāti. Top-varṇa-Vedic-scholar-meat-wine. 4-varṇa-18-jāti-one-pankti. Ambā-krīḍā-kallōḷa — all-Śiva-rūpa. Advance-śakuna-given. Tukā: sad-guru-dāsya — siddhi-pāṇī-vāhē-gharī.
What it means
★★ THE canonical 7-verse Kali-yuga prophecy. Telling you the fruit of Kali-yuga: ahead is the cosmic-uprising. We (sants) will be called thorns; they will set such a law. Women will be worshipped — any women, of any caste. The high-varṇa Vedic-scholar will take to wine-and-meat. Four varṇas and eighteen jātis will eat mouthfuls from one row. They will say it's the playful-tumult of Ambā (the Goddess), and that all beings are Śiva-form. Such will happen — I give the omen in advance; I tell you before. Tukā does sad-guru-service — at his home, siddhi carries the water. Highly specific 17th-c. predictions: (1) sants will be called troublemakers; (2) arbitrary women-as-deities; (3) high-Vedic-scholars eating meat-and-wine; (4) caste-distinctions dissolving in shared-meals; (5) Tantric/Śākta theology used as justification (ambā's-līlā / all-Śiva-rūpa). The closing self-reference Tukā does sad-guru-service; siddhi carries water at his home is a striking self-stance — Tukārām outside this Tantric-justification, simply doing sad-guru-sevā. Pair with 2961 (canonical Kali-yuga prophecy), 3025 (Kānhōbā's 30-verse Kali-yuga prophecy companion).
For someone today
Tukārām: Kali-yuga's-coming: sants-called-troublemakers, scholars-eat-meat-and-wine, jātis-dissolve-in-shared-meals, women-arbitrarily-worshipped, all-claim-Śiva-rūpa — I-tell-in-advance.
Where this applies
- ★★ Tukārām's THE canonical Kali-yuga 17th-c. prophecy — companion to 2961, 3025