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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4465 of 4582

Abhanga 4465

Name-pāvana-pāvana — most-pavitra.

The verse

नाम पावन पावन । त्याहून पवित्र आहे कोण ॥१॥ शिव हालाहालें तापला । तो ही नामें शीतळ जाला ॥ध्रु.॥ शिवास नामाचा आधार । केला कळिकाळ किंकर ॥२॥ मरण जालें काशीपुरी । तेथें नाम चि उद्धरी ॥३॥ तुका म्हणे अवघीं चोरें। एक हरिनाम सोइरें ॥४॥

Literal translation

Name-pāvana-pāvana — most-pavitra. Shiva-Hālāhala-tāpalā — by-Name-shītala. Shiva-Name-ādhāra — kaḷikāḷa-kimkara. Death-at-Kāśīpurī — Name-only-uddharī. Tukā: all-thieves — one-Hari-Nāma-sōyarē.

What it means

★★ A canonical 4-image Name-pāvana text. The Name is purifying-pure — than it, who else is pure? Śiva was burning by the Hālāhala-poison — he too became cool by the Name. Śiva took the Name as support — thereby he made the kali-time (his) servant. When death came at Kāśīpurī — there only the Name rescues. Tukā says: all else are thieves — one only — Hari-Nāma — is kin-friend. The 4-image cluster: (1) Name = most-pavitra — (2) Hālāhala-burning-Shiva cooled-by-Name — (3) Shiva makes Time-his-servant by-Name — (4) Kāśī-death-only-Name-rescues (refers to Kāśī tradition where dying-at-Kāśī gives liberation via Śiva's taraka-mantra). The closing: everything-else-(wealth/relations/world) is chōra (thief — they steal time, steal life), only Hari-Nāma is sōyarē (true kin-friend). Pair with 2855 (Hari-mhaṇatām-Name-mahima), 2909 (Name-as-sikkā), 2864 (clap-hands kīrtana).

For someone today

Tukārām: the-Name-is-purer-than-anything — even-Śiva-cooled-his-Hālāhala-burning-by-Name — death-at-Kāśī-is-rescued-only-by-Name — everything-else-in-life-is-a-thief-only-Hari-Nāma-is-the-true-kin-friend.

Where this applies

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