Abhanga 191
In your company — our certainty has come. We hadn't seen — fields like these, joys, pleasure-celebrations. At home — buttermilk-lake; here — fresh-butter floods. Tuka says: now — we won't go even if chased away.
The verse
तुझिये संगति । जाली आमुची निश्चिति ॥१॥ नाहीं देखिलें तें मळे । भोग सुखाचे सोहळे ॥ध्रु.॥ घरीं ताकाचें सरोवर । येथें नवनीताचे पूर ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे आतां । आम्ही न वजों दवडितां ॥३॥
Literal translation
In your company — our certainty has come. We hadn't seen — fields like these, enjoyments, joys, festive-celebrations. At home — a buttermilk-lake; here — fresh-butter floods. Tuka says: now — we won't go even if chased away.
मराठी: तुझिये संगति — आमची निश्चिति झाली. नाही देखिले ते मळे — भोग, सुख, सोहळे. घरी ताकाचं सरोवर — येथे नवनीताचे पूर. तुकाराम म्हणतात — आता — आम्ही न वजों दवडितां (हाकलून दिलं तरी जाणार नाही).
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| तुझिये संगति | "in your company" |
| जाली आमुची निश्चिति | "our niścīti (certainty / settled-conviction) has come" |
| नाहीं देखिलें तें मळे | "we hadn't seen — those maḷē (fields / abundance)" |
| भोग सुखाचे सोहळे | "bhoga (enjoyments), sukha (joy), sohaḷē (festive-celebrations)" |
| घरीं ताकाचें सरोवर | "at home — a takāchē sarovara (buttermilk-lake)" |
| येथें नवनीताचे पूर | "here — navanīta-pūra (fresh-butter floods)" |
| आतां आम्ही न वजों दवडितां | "now — we won't go (even if) davaḍitām (chased away / driven)" |
What it means
A post-threshold asymmetric-comparison abhang. Continues 190's irreversibility-claim. Three structural moves:
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तुझिये संगति — जाली आमुची निश्चिति — in your company — our certainty has come. Niścīti — settled-conviction — is the post-threshold mental state. The uncertainty of the pre-threshold state is gone. This is not an emotional certainty (the deity comes-and-goes anyway, 173); it is the structural niścīti that the relation is real.
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घरीं ताकाचें सरोवर — येथें नवनीताचे पूर — at home, a buttermilk-lake; here, fresh-butter floods. The asymmetric-comparison is precise. The bhakta's home (the prior dwelling) had taka (buttermilk — the thinned-out by-product after butter-extraction); the here (the with-Krishna ground) has navanīta-pūra (fresh-butter floods). The home had a lake of the leftover; here has floods of the cream. Compare 105's takā-dudhā ek sarī (buttermilk-and-milk-treated-as-equal) — non-discrimination is collapse. Here, discrimination is alive: the difference between taka and navanīta is real and irreversible.
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आम्ही न वजों दवडितां — we won't go even if chased away. Tukaram's signature post-threshold position. The chaser might be the loved-one themselves (testing), the world's circumstances (pressure to return), or one's own habit (pull-back to the prior arrangement). All three: won't go. The will-not is post-threshold; it is not a discipline but a structural impossibility. [T]
For someone today
This verse describes the settled certainty that comes after you've truly experienced something real, whether a relationship, a practice, or a faith. You realize you hadn't known real joy before, comparing your old life to your new one the way you'd compare thin buttermilk left over at home to rivers of fresh butter here. That comparison isn't bitter, it's simply honest; once you've tasted the real thing you can't pretend the old version was just as good. And so comes the resolve: even if people push you away, even if circumstances make it hard, you won't leave, because this certainty is no longer something you have to keep proving to yourself.
मराठी: ही ओवी खरोखर काहीतरी अनुभवल्यावर, मग ते नातं असो, साधना असो किंवा भक्ती असो, मनात येणाऱ्या स्थिर खात्रीबद्दल सांगते. पूर्वीचं आयुष्य आणि आत्ताचं आयुष्य यांची तुलना करताना जाणवतं की आधी खरा आनंद माहीतच नव्हता, जणू घरी उरलेलं पातळ ताक आणि इथे वाहणारे लोण्याचे पूर आहेत. ही तुलना कडवटपणे नाही, तर प्रामाणिकपणे केलेली आहे, कारण खरी गोष्ट चाखल्यावर जुनी गोष्ट तितकीच चांगली होती असं म्हणणं शक्य नसतं. आणि म्हणून मनात एक ठाम निश्चय येतो, कोणी हाकलून दिलं तरी, परिस्थिती कठीण झाली तरी, आपण सोडून जाणार नाही, कारण ही खात्री आता पुन्हा पुन्हा सिद्ध करावी लागत नाही.
Where this applies
- Niścīti has come. Settled-conviction beyond re-examination.
- Honest taka-vs-navanīta comparison. Post-threshold marker.
- Won't-go-even-if-chased. Structural state, not discipline.