Abhanga 4085
Ajñāna-bhakti-sampatti — no-bodha.
The verse
अज्ञानाची भक्ती इच्छिती संपत्ती । तयाचिये मती बोध कैंचा ॥१॥
अज्ञानाची पूजा कामिक भावना । तयाचिया ध्याना देव कैंचा ॥ध्रु.॥
अज्ञानाचें कर्म फळीं ठेवी मन । निष्काम साधन तया कैंचें ॥२॥
अज्ञानाचें ज्ञान विषयावरी ध्यान । ब्रम्ह सनातन तया कैंचें ॥३॥
तुका म्हणे जळो ऐसियांचे तोंड । अज्ञानाचें बंड वाढविती ॥४॥
Literal translation
Ajñāna-bhakti-sampatti — no-bodha. Ajñāna-pūjā-kāmika — no-Deva-dhyāna. Ajñāna-karma-mind-on-fruit — no-niṣkāma. Ajñāna-jñāna-viṣaya-dhyāna — no-brahma. Tukā: burn-faces — ajñāna-bandh-spreads.
What it means
★ A 4-fold ajñāna-polemic. The ignorant one's bhakti: he desires wealth. What understanding is there in that mind? The ignorant one's pūjā: with desire-driven feeling. What Deva can be in that meditation? The ignorant one's karma: with mind on the fruit. What desireless practice is there for him? The ignorant one's jñāna: meditation on sense-objects. What eternal Brahman is there for him? Burn the faces of such — they spread the mess of ajñāna. The four classical disciplines all corrupted by desire — bhakti/pūjā/karma/jñāna each ruined by kāma in the doer. This is a foundational anti-corruption diagnostic.
For someone today
Tukārām: ajñāna corrupts even-bhakti-pūjā-karma-jñāna-by-desire-attachment.
Where this applies
- ★ Tukārām's 4-fold ajñāna polemic — all-paths-fail-without-niṣkāma canonical