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Abhanga 152

This abhang's most useful pieces:

When the spinning has actually engaged you and the jīva-pana has dissolved — and you have to recognize the commitment

When the previous husband (allegiance) is the only thing keeping you from settling — and you have to drop him

When standing-upright (not sow, donkey, bitch) is the new posture — and you have to honor the upright

The verse

लये लये लखोटा । मूळबंदि कासोटा । भावा केलें साहें । आतां माझें पाहें ॥१॥ हातोहातीं गुंतली । जीवपणा मुकली । धीर माझा निका । सांडीं बोल फिका ॥२॥ अंगीकारी हरि । नको पडों फेरी । लाज धरीं भांडे । जग झोडी रांडे ॥३॥ बैस भावा पाठीं । ऐक माझ्या गोष्टी । केला सांडीं गोहो । येथें धरीं मोहो ॥४॥ पाठमोरा डोल । आवरी तें बोल । पांगलीस बाळा । पुढें अवकळा ॥५॥ आतां उभी ठायीं । उभाउभीं पाहीं । नको होऊं डुकरी । पुढें गाढव कुतरी ॥६॥ नामा केलें खरें । आपुलें म्या बरें। तुका म्हणे येरी । पांगविल्या पोरी ॥७॥ तुशीं कोण घाली हुंबरी । साही पांगल्या अठरा चारी ॥ध्रु.॥

Literal translation

English: With rhythm-rhythm, the bundle (lakhotā) is at the waist; brother gave the support; now look at me. Hand-to-hand caught — jīva-pana gone. My patience is firm; drop the bland talk. Hari embraces — don't go in circles. Hold shame, you quarreling-one — the world strikes the wretched. Sit at brother's back, listen to my words; drop the gohū (husband), fix attention here. Wobbling backwards — restrain that talk; you're sprawled, child — disgrace ahead. Stand upright now, look up — don't be a sow, ahead a donkey, then bitch. Nāmā (Namdev) made it real — I have done it well. Tuka says: the others have slipped, girls. Whoever raises a humbarī (challenge) — the six, the eighteen, the four (philosophies / puranas / vedas) all yield.

मराठी: लये-लये लखोटा — मूळबंदी कासोटा; भावाने साह्य केलं — आता माझं पाहा. हातोहाती गुंतली — जीवपणा मुकली. माझा धीर पक्का; सांड फिका बोल. हरि अंगीकार करतो — फेरी पडू नको. लाज धर, भांडे; जग रांडेला झोडतं. भावाच्या पाठी बस, माझ्या गोष्टी ऐक; गोहू सोड, इथे मोह धर. पाठमोरा डोल — तो बोल आवर; तू पांगलीयस बाळा — पुढे अवकळा. आता उभी राहा, उभा-उभी पाहा — डुकरी होऊ नको, पुढे गाढव-कुतरी. नामाने केलं खरं — मी आपलं बरं. तुकाराम म्हणतात — येरी पांगवलेल्या पोरी. हुंबरी कोण घालेल — सहा-अठरा-चार सर्व पांगतात.

What it means

The closing fugadi-abhang. The bhakta-speaker has settled into the spin with Hari; जीवपणा मुकली — jīva-pana is gone (selfhood-as-claim is dissolved). The instruction to others: don't circle endlessly (फेरी) — settle. Drop the gohū (former-husband / former-allegiance) and fix attention here. Stand-upright — don't be the sow, donkey, bitch sequence (descending animal-states). The closing claim — सहा-अठरा-चार सर्व पांगतात — the six (philosophies), eighteen (puranas), four (vedas) all yield to the bhakta who has settled — invokes Namdev's precedent (नामाने केलं खरें). [T] [Tradition]

For someone today

This abhang's most useful pieces:

The jīva-pana dissolves in the spin — हातोहातीं गुंतली, जीवपणा मुकली. Selfhood-claim doesn't dissolve by thinking-about-non-self; it dissolves in the engagement. The fugadi-spin is the practice; the dissolution is its by-product.
The fērī (endless circling) is the failure-mode. When attention has not yet settled on Hari, you circle without progress. The cure is settling, not better-circling.
The descending animal-sequence (sow → donkey → bitch) is the cost of not standing upright. Each refusal to stand brings a lower form. The cure is उभाउभीं पाहीं — look upward standing.

मराठी: ओवीचे सर्वात उपयोगी भाग:

जीवपणा spin मध्ये विरघळतो — हातोहातीं गुंतली, जीवपणा मुकली. Selfhood-claim non-self बद्दल विचार करून विरघळत नाही; engagement मध्ये विरघळतो. fugadi-spin साधना; dissolution त्याचं by-product.
फेरी (अंतहीन फिरणं) failure-mode. attention अजून हरीवर settle झालं नाही — progress नसलेलं फिरणं. उपाय settle, better-circling नाही.
उतरत्या animal-sequence (डुकरी → गाढव → कुतरी) उभं न राहण्याची किंमत. प्रत्येक न-उभं-राहण्याने lower form येतो. उपाय उभाउभीं पाहीं.

Where this applies

Spin engaging, jīva-pana dissolving. Recognize.
Endless circling, no settle. Settling is the cure.
Descending animal-sequence in your life. Stand upright.