Abhanga 4042
Santa-chinhe leūnī angīm — wearing sant-signs on body; bhūṣaṇa miravitī jagīm — parading this bhūṣaṇa in jagat.
The verse
संतचिन्हें लेउनि अंगीं । भूषण मिरविती जगीं ॥१॥
पडिले दुःखाचे सागरीं । वहावले ते भवपुरीं ॥ध्रु.॥
कामक्रोधलोभ चित्तीं । वरिवरि दाविती विरक्ती ॥२॥
आशापाशीं बांधोनि चित्त । म्हणती जालों आम्ही मुक्त ॥३॥
त्यांचे लागले संगती । जाली त्यांसी ते चि गति ॥४॥
तुका म्हणे शब्दज्ञानें । जग नाडियेलें तेणें ॥५॥
Literal translation
Santa-chinhe leūnī angīm — wearing sant-signs on body; bhūṣaṇa miravitī jagīm — parading this bhūṣaṇa in jagat. Paḍile duḥkhāñce sāgarīm — have fallen in duḥkha-sāgara; vahāvale te bhavapurīm — been carried-away in bhava-purī. Kāma-krōdha-lōbha chittīm — kāma-krōdha-lōbha in chitti; varivari dāvitī viraktī — on surface, show virakti. Āśā-pāśīm bāmdhōnī chitta — chitta bound by āśā-pāśī; mhaṇatī jālōm āmhī mukta — say we have become mukta. Tyāmce lāgale samgatī — those who follow them; jālī tyāmsī te chi gati — get the same gati. Tukā mhaṇe śabda-jñāne — Tukā says: by śabda-jñāna; jaga nāḍiyele teṇe — jaga has been deceived.
What it means
A 5-verse anti-fake-renunciate polemic by Tukārām.
The diagnostic: Wear-sant-marks-as-ornament-for-display; fallen-in-duḥkha-sāgara; kāma-krōdha-lōbha-inside, virakti-only-on-surface; chitta-bound-by-āśā-pāśī yet-claim-mukta-status; followers-get-same-gati; world-deceived-by-śabda-jñāna.
★ The śabda-jñāna (word-knowledge) is the diagnostic-failure-mode: knowledge-without-anubhava-deceives.
Compare-Tukārām's 2844-2847 anti-fake-renunciate cluster (gājarāñcī-pungī-jōgis, ṭīḷā-ṭōpī-gosāvīs, tobacco-cannabis pseudo-sants), 4041 (anti-piṇḍa-pōṣaka).
For someone today
Tukārām's anti-fake-renunciate polemic. Wearing signs-of-sant on the body, (they) parade this ornament in the world. (They) have fallen in the duḥkha-ocean — (they) have been carried-away in the bhava-purī. Lust-anger-greed in (their) chitta — on the surface they show renunciation. Their chitta is bound by the rope-of-desire — yet they say: we have become free. Those who follow them get the same fate. By word-knowledge — the world has been deceived. The verse permits the canonical diagnostic of-fake-renunciate-as-śabda-jñāna-deceiver.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's striking anti-fake-renunciate polemic
- Śabda-jñāna-deceives-world canonical claim
- Companion to 2844-2847, 4041