Abhanga 168

This abhang names the post-fullness register. After the practice has fed you (literal sustenance — meditation has worked, the prayer landed, the Eucharist was real, the meal was good) — the next move is wordless-signs. अबोलण्या खुणा. Don't keep talking about the experience; let the silence-with-Nārāyaṇa happen.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A post-feast abhang in the gopa-shikā / kālā cluster. Where 166-167 were the active taking-of-the-shikā, 168 is what happens after the bellies are full. Three movements:

1. बोभाट — the comrades raise a clamor — come, come, Nārāyaṇa — let's speak the abolaṇyā khuṇā. अबोलण्या खुणा — the wordless signs, signs of the un-speakable. After the meal, the children call to Krishna for the next register — silent, gestural, intimate. The post-fullness mode is wordless.

2. खांद्यावरी भार — the shoulder-burden. Some of the comrades have been carrying much-fatigue. Even after the feast, the burden remains.

3. तुकयाच्या दातारें नेलीं — Tuka's munificent-one took (the burden). Krishna-as-dātāra (munificent-one) takes the bhāra (load) off the shoulder, and सुखी केलीं पोरें — makes the kids happy. The munificence is not only in giving the milk; it is in taking the burden.

The structural claim: bhakti has two phases — first, the fill (taking from the shikā); second, the unburden (Krishna lifting the bhāra and switching to abolaṇyā khuṇā). [T]

For someone today

This abhang names the post-fullness register. After the practice has fed you (literal sustenance — meditation has worked, the prayer landed, the Eucharist was real, the meal was good) — the next move is wordless-signs. अबोलण्या खुणा. Don't keep talking about the experience; let the silence-with-Nārāyaṇa happen.

And: there is still the shoulder-burden — the residual fatigue, the prior accumulations, the things that did not lift in the meal itself. The deity-as-dātāra lifts these separately, after the meal. The bhāra-removal is a distinct gift, not part of the feast itself.

For today: after a real fullness — shut up, sit with Krishna, let him take the shoulder-load. Don't analyze the experience to your friends; let the abolaṇyā khuṇā register continue.

मराठी: ही ओवी post-fullness register नाव सांगते. practice ने तुम्हाला भरवलं (literal sustenance — meditation झालं, prayer landed झाली, Eucharist खरी होती, जेवण चांगलं होतं) — पुढची हालचाल अबोलण्या खुणा. अनुभवा-बद्दल बोलत राहू नका; नारायणा-सोबत-शांतता होऊ द्या.

आणि: खांद्यावरचा भार अजून आहे — residual थकवा, prior accumulations, जेवणात न उचलल्या-गेलेल्या गोष्टी. दातारा या उचलतो — जेवणानंतर, separately. भार-काढणं हा वेगळा gift, feast चा भाग नाही.

आज: real fullness नंतर — बोलू नका, कृष्णासह बसा, खांद्यावरचा भार त्याला घेऊ द्या. अनुभवाची मित्रांसोबत analysis करू नका; अबोलण्या खुणा register continue होऊ द्या.

Where this applies

• Post-fullness register. Wordless signs.
• Carrying shoulder-burden. Let dātāra take it.
• Talking analytically after the meal. Don't; let silence happen.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2374
• Abhanga 2377 — English: Gentle, sweet bāla-rūpa — that form from Kāḷī-time.
• Abhanga 2387
• Abhanga 2402