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Abhanga 4420

The verse

भक्तीवीण जिणें जळो लाजिरवाणें । संसार भोगणें दुःखमूळ ॥१॥ वीसलक्ष योनि वृक्षामाजी घ्याव्या । जलचरीं भोगाव्या नवलक्ष ॥ध्रु.॥ अकरालक्ष योनि किड्यामाजी घ्याव्या । दशलक्ष भोगाव्या पर्‍यांमध्ये ॥२॥ तीसलक्ष योनि पशूंचीये घरीं । मानवाभीतरीं चारलक्ष ॥३॥ एकएक योनि कोटिकोटि फेरा । मनुष्यदेहाचा वारा मग लागे ॥४॥ तुका म्हणे तेव्हां नरदेह नरा । तयाचा मातेरा केला मूढें ॥५॥

Literal translation

Bhakti-vīṇa-jiṇē-jaḷō — samsāra-bhōga-duḥkha-mūḷa. 20-lakh-vrkṣa — 9-lakh-jala-charī. 11-lakh-kīḍē — 10-lakh-pari. 30-lakh-paśu — 4-lakh-mānava. Each-yōni-kōṭi-kōṭi-phēra — then-manuṣya-deha-vārā. Tukā: when-nara-deha — mūḍha-makes-mātērā-of-it.

What it means

★★ THE canonical 5-verse 84-lakh-yōni cosmology text. Burn the bhakti-less life, it's shameful; bearing samsāra is the root-of-sorrow. Twenty-lakh wombs to be taken among trees; nine-lakh to be experienced among water-creatures. Eleven-lakh wombs among insects; ten-lakh among (other) varieties. Thirty-lakh wombs in the animals' houses; four-lakh inside man. Each one yōni has a ten-billion cycle; only then the turn of the human-body comes. Tukā says: when at-that-time the human-body comes to a man — the fool makes debris (mātērā) of it. The 84-lakh-yōni count (20+9+11+10+30+4 = 84-lakh) is a standard Indian-cosmological-doctrine of 84-lakh-species through which the soul cycles before reaching the human-body. The closing: even after this immense-cycle, the mūḍha wastes the human-body. Pair with 4225 (life-budget-accounting), 4090 (Pandhari-jīvanmukta-regardless-of-prior-character).

For someone today

Tukārām: after-cycling-through-84-lakh-wombs-each-with-crore-crore-iterations the-human-body-finally-comes — and-the-fool-makes-debris-of-it.

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