Abhanga 314

Tukaram describes a joyful season when grace flows freely — the marketplace of blessing is full, the roads are busy with good fortune arriving from every direction, and every sign points to gain. Obstacles stay out of the way, and giving and receiving move back and forth without hindrance. But the deepest gain of all, Tukaram says, is this: what you truly receive is your own self, found again through your bond with God. When conditions like this open up in your life, notice them, receive them fully, and remember that the real prize was always finding yourself.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A short favorable-conditions abhang. Three claims:

1. इनामाची भरली पेठ — वाहाती दाट मारग — ināma-market filled — dense traffic on road. The abundance-image. Ināma — gift / royal-favor / unearned-grant. The market is full of ināma; the road is dense with traffic. The grace-conditions are abundantly-flowing.

2. अवघेची येती वाण — अवघे शकुन लाभाचे — all-arrivals come — all śakuna of lābha. Vāṇa (arrivals / wares-arriving). All the auspicious-arrivals come; all the śakuna (signs) point to lābha (gain). Both events and signs are auspicious.

3. अडचणी त्या केल्या दुरी — देण्या उरी घेण्याच्या — obstacles kept far — giving-receiving circulating. Aḍacaṇī (obstacles, difficulties) — kept far away. Deṇē-ghēṇē (giving and receiving) — circulating-actively. The flow is unobstructed; the exchange is happening.

4. तुका म्हणे जोडी जाली — ते आपुली आपणा — the jōḍa — is one's-own to oneself. The closing-claim. Jōḍa — gain / connection / pairing. The gain is one's-own to oneself (āpulī āpaṇā). Reading: the gain made is for-the-self by-the-self — the bhakta has met his-own-source (= gained-himself). The jōḍa isself-with-self via the deity-channel. (Compare 200's jōḍa jālī tē hē māulī āmuchī — the gain is the mother; here, the gain is one's own to oneself.)

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For someone today

Tukaram describes a joyful season when grace flows freely — the marketplace of blessing is full, the roads are busy with good fortune arriving from every direction, and every sign points to gain. Obstacles stay out of the way, and giving and receiving move back and forth without hindrance. But the deepest gain of all, Tukaram says, is this: what you truly receive is your own self, found again through your bond with God. When conditions like this open up in your life, notice them, receive them fully, and remember that the real prize was always finding yourself.

मराठी: तुकाराम कृपेने भरलेल्या एका आनंदी क्षणाचं वर्णन करतात — कृपेची बाजारपेठ भरलेली आहे, रस्ते सर्व दिशांनी येणाऱ्या सुदैवाने गजबजलेले आहेत, आणि प्रत्येक चिन्ह लाभाकडे इशारा करतं. अडथळे दूर राहतात, आणि देणं-घेणं कोणत्याही अडथळ्याशिवाय दोन्ही बाजूंनी वाहत राहतं. पण तुकाराम म्हणतात, यातला सर्वात खोल लाभ म्हणजे हा — तुम्हाला जे खरं मिळतं ते म्हणजे देवाशी असलेल्या नात्यातून पुन्हा सापडलेलं तुमचं स्वतःचं अस्तित्व. आयुष्यात अशी अनुकूल परिस्थिती निर्माण झाली की ती ओळखा, पूर्णपणे स्वीकारा, आणि लक्षात ठेवा की खरं बक्षीस नेहमीच स्वतःला गवसणं हेच होतं.

Where this applies

• Recognize when the ināma-market is filled. Auspicious-phases.
• All arrivals auspicious; all signs of lābha. Don't moderate.
• Obstacles kept far; exchange flowing. Grace-condition.
• The jōḍa is one's-own to oneself. Self-with-self via deity-channel.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2448 — The easiest path to God is repeating divine names with love at home, right where you are,
• Abhanga 2467 — What looks like your whole world, like a fig to the insect living inside it, is only a tin
• Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and
• Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with