Abhanga 241

This abhang names a direct anti-elite spiritual-economy:

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A direct anti-elite-spirituality abhang. Four claims:

1. हरि गोपाळांसवें सकळां — भेटे गळ्या गळा मेळवूनी — Hari with all gopālas — meets neck-with-neck-joined. The full-embrace. Gaḷā-gaḷā melaṇūnī — the neck-with-neck-joined embrace — is the physical-form of meeting. Full physical-intimate embrace, not symbolic-distant.

2. भाविकें त्यांची आवडी मोठी — सांगे गोष्टी जीविंचिया — the bhāvika's love is great — (he) tells things-of-the-jīva. The content of the meeting: gōṣṭī jīvīmciyā — things-of-the-jīva, intimate inner-things. Not cosmic-doctrines — intimate-personal-things.

3. योगियांच्या ध्याना जो नये — भाकरी त्यांच्या मागोनि खाये — (he) who does not come into the yogis' dhyāna — eats their bhakari, asking. The radical claim. The yogis' dhyāna (the formal-meditation of advanced-practitioners) — Krishna does not come into it. The same Krishna eats the bhāvikas' bhakari (everyday-bread) by asking for it. The yogis-don't-get; the bhāvikas-get-asked-from.

4. तुका म्हणे असे शाहाणियां दुरी — बोबडियां दास कामारी — Tuka says: (he) is far from the wise — slave-servant of the lisping-ones. The closing direct-claim. Śāhāṇiyām dūrī — far from the wise (the calculating, the careful, the rationally-precise). Bobaḍiyām dāsa-kāmārī — slave-servant of the lisping-ones (those who cannot speak well, the inarticulate, the unsophisticated). The deity's posture is anti-elite.

[T] [Compare 222 (all-skilled begs for innocence), 220 (lisping-word pleases the master), 233 (wise distant, innocents close).]

For someone today

This abhang names a direct anti-elite spiritual-economy:

1. The intimacy is neck-with-neck embrace* with the gopālas. Not symbolic-distant worship. Physical, embodied, full*.

2. The content is things-of-the-jīva* (intimate-personal-things). Not cosmic-doctrines. The deity tells intimate-personal-things to the bhāvikas; that is the conversation-content*.

3. The deity does not come into the yogis' dhyāna. Yōgiyāñcyā dhyānā jō nayē. Don't be intimidated by the formal-meditation specialists; the deity is not necessarily there. The yogis may have technique without the deity.

4. The deity asks-for the bhāvikas' bhakari. Bhākarī tyāñcyā māgōnī khāyē. The deity asks for everyday-bread from the bhāvikas — not from the yogis. The humble-everyday-offering is what the deity asks for.

5. Far from the wise, slave-servant of the lisping-ones. Asē śāhāṇiyām dūrī, bobaḍiyām dāsa-kāmārī. The deity is structurally far from the calculating-wise and structurally close-to-serving the inarticulate. If you have been trying to be wise, you have been creating distance. If you are lisping / inarticulate / un-elite, you are the deity's preferred partner.

For today: don't aspire to the śāhāṇē-position to come close to the deity; the bobaḍiyām-position is closer. Offer the bhakari (everyday-bread) — the deity asks for it. Have intimate jīva-conversation, not cosmic-doctrine-display.

मराठी: ही ओवी direct anti-elite spiritual-economy नाव सांगते:

1. Intimacy गळ्या-गळ्या मेळवून-मिठी* गोपाळांसह. Symbolic-distant worship नाही. Physical, embodied, full*.

2. Content जीविंचिया गोष्टी* (intimate-personal-things). Cosmic-doctrines नाही. देव bhāvikas ला intimate-personal-things सांगतो; conversation-content*.

3. देव yogis च्या dhyāna* मध्ये येत नाही. योगियांच्या ध्याना जो नये. Formal-meditation specialists मुळे intimidated होऊ नका; देव तिथे necessarily नाही. Yogis ला technique पण देव नसेल*.

4. देव bhāvikas चं bhakari मागतो*. भाकरी त्यांच्या मागोनि खाये. देव everyday-bread मागतो — bhāvikas कडून, yogis कडून नाही. Humble-everyday-offering देव मागतो*.

5. शहाण्यांपासून दूर, बोबड्यांचा दास-कामारी. असे शाहाणियां दुरी, बोबडियां दास कामारी. देव structurally calculating-wise पासून दूर आणि structurally inarticulate-ची-सेवा-करायला जवळ. तुम्ही wise होण्याचा प्रयत्न करत असाल — distance create करत आहात. तुम्ही lisping / inarticulate / un-elite असाल — देवाचे preferred-partner.

आज: देवाजवळ येण्यासाठी śāhāṇē-position aspire करू नका; बोबडियां-position जवळ. भाकरी (everyday-bread) offer करा — देव त्यासाठी मागतो. Intimate jīva-conversation करा, cosmic-doctrine-display नाही.

Where this applies

• Neck-with-neck embrace. Physical-intimate.
• Content is jīva-things, not cosmic-doctrines.
• Deity not in the yogis' dhyāna. Don't be intimidated by technique.
• Far from the wise, slave-servant of the lisping. Don't aspire to wisdom for closeness.

Related verses

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