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Abhanga 228The Nature of God

The Universality of God's Grace

मराठी मूळ · गाथा 254

गंधर्व अग्नि सोम भोगिती कुमारी । कोठें चराचरीं त्याग केला ॥१॥

गायत्री स्वमुखें भक्षीतसे मळ । मिळाल्या वाहाळ गंगाओघ ॥ध्रु.॥

कागाचिये विष्ठें जन्म पिंपळासि । पांडवकुळासि पाहातां दोष ॥२॥

शकुंतळा सूत कर्ण शृंगी व्यास । यांच्या नामें नाश पातकांसि ॥३॥

गणिका अजामेळ कुब्जा तो विदुर । पाहातां विचार पिंगळेचा ॥४॥

वाल्हा विश्वामित्र वसिष्ठ नारद । यांचे पूर्व शुद्ध काय आहे ॥५॥

न व्हावी तीं जालीं कर्में नरनारी । अनुतापें हरी स्मरतां मुक्त ॥६॥

तुका म्हणे पूर्व नाठवी श्रीहरी । मूळ जो उच्चारी नरक त्यासि ॥७॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation · I.P. 228

BECAUSE a girl is enjoyed for two years by Gandharva and Agni, do men or animals cast her off? A cow feeds on filth with her own mouth, yet she is pure; so is a stream when 'it has mingled with the Ganges. A peepul tree grows from a crow’s excrement; if you consider the birth of the Pandavas, it was guilty. Sakuntala, Suta, Karna, Sringi and Vyasa ; their names destroy sin. Consider Ganika, Ajamela, Kubja. Vidura ; consider too who was Pingala, Valha, Visvamitra, Vasishta, Narada ; was the origin of these men pure? Yet men and women whose actions would not save them were saved by their repentance and by remembering Hari. Tuka says, Lord Hari does not remember a man’s origin; he who considers that goes to hell.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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