Abhanga 177
Krishna was born in Gokul — the wicked got the tremor. When Krishna's avatar happens, joy fills every house. They sing the prema-name from the mouth, dance always in joy. Tuka says: faults are removed; the joyful shout rises.
The verse
कृष्ण गोकुळीं जन्मला । दुष्टां चळकांप सुटला ॥१॥ होतां कृष्णाचा अवतार । आनंद करिती घरोघर ॥ध्रु.॥ प्रेम नाम वाचें गाती । सदा आनंदें नाचती ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे हरती दोष । आनंदानें करिती घोष ॥३॥
Literal translation
English: Krishna was born in Gokul — tremor was released on the wicked. When Krishna's avatar happens, they make joy in every house. They sing the prema-name from the mouth — they dance always in joy. Tuka says: faults are taken-away; in joy they make the loud-shout.
मराठी: कृष्ण गोकुळी जन्मला — दुष्टांना चळ-कांप सुटला. कृष्णाचा अवतार होताच — घरोघर आनंद करतात. प्रेम-नाम वाचेने गातात — सदा आनंदाने नाचतात. तुकाराम म्हणतात — दोष हरतात — आनंदानं घोष करतात.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| कृष्ण गोकुळीं जन्मला | "Krishna was born in Gokul" |
| दुष्टां चळकांप सुटला | "the wicked got tremor (released-on)" |
| होतां कृष्णाचा अवतार | "(when) Krishna's avatar happens" |
| आनंद करिती घरोघर | "they make joy in every house" |
| प्रेम नाम वाचें गाती | "they sing the prema-nāma (love-name) from the mouth" |
| सदा आनंदें नाचती | "they dance always in joy" |
| हरती दोष | "the doṣa (fault) are taken-away" |
| आनंदानें करिती घोष | "in joy they make a ghoṣa (loud-shout)" |
What it means
A Krishna-janma abhang — celebrating the birth of Krishna in Gokul. Standard gokulāṣṭami festival mood:
- दुष्टां चळकांप सुटला — the wicked got tremor. When the avatar arrives, the unrighteous feel a structural-instability. The arrival of one kind of being destabilizes the opposite kind.
- घरोघर आनंद — joy in every house. Not just in the temple, not just in the palace — every house. The celebration is demotic.
- प्रेम नाम वाचें गाती — singing the prema-name from the mouth. The form of the celebration is vocal; the name is sung. (Specifically prema-nāma — the love-name, signaling that the singing is from-affection, not from-discipline.)
- सदा आनंदें नाचती — dancing always in joy. The bodily form: dancing.
- हरती दोष — आनंदानें करिती घोष — faults taken away in the loud-shout of joy. The doṣa-hāra (fault-removal) happens via the ānanda-ghoṣa. The shout itself is the cleansing-mechanism. [T]
For someone today
This abhang names the form of authentic celebration:
- Vocal: sing the loved-thing's name from the mouth.
- Bodily: dance.
- Distributed: every house, not just the official venue.
- Loud: ghoṣa — the shout, not the murmur.
And the simultaneous events: - The wicked tremble — not because the celebrators attacked anyone, but because the avatar-arrival itself destabilizes the unrighteous. - Faults are removed — by the celebration itself, not by separate purification-rite.
For today: when something genuinely good arrives (the avatar in your life — a child born, a beloved arriving, a real teaching landing, a recovery confirmed) — the right-response is vocal-bodily-distributed-loud celebration. The faults will be removed by the celebration; the wicked-currents will tremble by the celebration. Don't hold back the celebration to deal with the issues separately.
मराठी: ही ओवी authentic celebration चं रूप नाव सांगते:
- Vocal: प्रिय-गोष्टीचं नाव मुखाने गाणं.
- Bodily: नाचणं.
- Distributed: घरोघर, फक्त official venue मध्ये नाही.
- Loud: घोष — कुजबुज नाही.
simultaneous events: - दुष्ट कांपतात — celebrate करणारे कुणावर हल्ला करत नाहीत म्हणून नाही — avatar-arrival unrighteous-currents ला destabilize करतं. - दोष हरतात — celebration ने, separate purification-rite ने नाही.
आज: खरंच काही चांगलं आलं (तुमच्या आयुष्यात avatar — मूल जन्मलं, प्रिय आला, real teaching landed, recovery confirmed झाली) — योग्य प्रतिसाद vocal-bodily-distributed-loud celebration. celebration ने दोष हरतील; celebration ने wicked-currents कांपतील. issues separately deal करण्यासाठी celebration होल्ड करू नका.
Where this applies
- Celebration-of-arrival moment. घरोघर आनंद, प्रेम-नाम, नाच, घोष.
- The wicked tremble while you celebrate. Don't moderate; this is the structural effect.
- Faults removed by celebration itself. Don't separate purification.