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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4387 of 4582

Abhanga 4387

Kīrtana-vikarā = mātr-gamana — bhāḍa-eats viṭāḷa-money.

The verse

कीर्तनाचा विकरा मातेचें गमन । भाड खाईं धन विटाळ तो ॥१॥ हरिभक्ताचि माता हे हरिगुणकीर्ति । इजवर पोट भरिती चांडाळ ते ॥ध्रु.॥ अंत्यज हा ऐसें कल्पांतीं करीना । भाड हे खाईंना जननीची ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे त्याचें दर्शन ही खोटें । पूर्वजांसि नेटें नरका धाडी ॥३॥

Literal translation

Kīrtana-vikarā = mātr-gamana — bhāḍa-eats viṭāḷa-money. Hari-bhakta's-mother-is-Hari-guṇa-kīrti — eating-on-her = chāṇḍāḷas. Antya-ja-doesn't-eat-jananī's-bhāḍa-even-in-kalpānta. Tukā: even-darśana-khōṭa — drives-pūrvajas-to-naraka.

What it means

★★ THE MAJOR most-severe anti-monetized-kīrtana invocation in the Gathā. Selling kīrtana is incest-with-mother — eating fee as money is pollution. The Hari-devotee's mother is the recital-of-Hari's-virtues — those who fill their belly on her are outcastes-in-conduct. Even an untouchable doesn't do such an act at the end-of-aeon — doesn't eat his own-mother's prostitute-fee. Tukā says: even seeing such a person is harmful — it forcefully drives the ancestors to hell. The triple-severity: 1. kīrtana-vikarā = mātr-gamana — the most-extreme moral-equivalence-image in the entire Gathā 2. Hari-guṇa-kīrti is the bhakta's mother — making the metaphor explicit 3. Even an antya-ja doesn't do this — inverting caste-hierarchy: the conventional-untouchable is morally-superior to the monetized-kīrtanakāra 4. Even darśana drives ancestors to naraka — pūrva-ja-soteriological-damage

Pair with 3074 (anti-monetized-kīrtana ethics 4-rule code), 4356 (anti-Brahmin-elitism + Name-replaces-rituals).

For someone today

Tukārām: selling-kīrtana-for-fee is-mother-incest; the-bhakta's-mother-is-the-recital-of-Hari's-virtues; even-an-untouchable-wouldn't-eat-his-mother's-prostitute-fee; even-seeing-such-a-kīrtanakāra-damages-ancestors.

Where this applies

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