Abhanga 365
God's play excludes no one, so true devotion leaves no room for purity-based discrimination or hostility toward others, and at death only God-given steadiness of mind matters.
The verse
म्हणउनी खेळ मांडियेला ऐसा । नाहीं कोणी दिशा वर्जीयेली ॥१॥ माझिया गोतें हें वसलें सकळ । न देखिजे मूळ विटाळाचें ॥ध्रु.॥ करूनि ओळखी दिली एकसरें । न देखों दुसरें विषमासी ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे नाहीं काळापाशीं गोवा । स्थिति मति देवा वांचूनियां ॥३॥
Literal translation
Therefore (He) set up such a khēḷa — no diśā has been excluded. In my own gōta — all settled — no mūla of viṭāḷa is seen. Making oḷakhī — given as one-and-the-same — won't see another as viṣama. Tuka says: no gōvā at kāḷa-pāśa — sthiti-mati except by deva.
मराठी: म्हणउनी खेळ मांडियेला ऐसा — नाहीं कोणी दिशा वर्जीयेली. माझिया गोतें हें वसलें सकळ — न देखिजे मूळ विटाळाचें. करूनि ओळखी दिली एकसरें — न देखों दुसरें विषमासी. तुकाराम म्हणतां — नाहीं काळापाशीं गोवा — स्थिति मति देवा वांचूनियां.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
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| म्हणउनी खेळ मांडियेला ऐसा | "therefore — (He) set up — such a khēḷa" |
| नाहीं कोणी दिशा वर्जीयेली | "no diśā — has been excluded" |
| माझिया गोतें हें वसलें सकळ | "in my own gōta — all is settled" |
| न देखिजे मूळ विटाळाचें | "no mūla of viṭāḷa — is seen" |
| करूनि ओळखी दिली एकसरें | "making oḷakhī — given ēkasarē (one-and-the-same)" |
| न देखों दुसरें विषमासी | "won't see another — as viṣama (hostile)" |
| नाहीं काळापाशीं गोवा | "no gōvā (entanglement) at kāḷa-pāśa" |
| स्थिति मति देवा वांचूनियां | "sthiti-mati — except by deva" |
What it means
A no-direction-excluded-from-deva's-khēḷa abhang. Four claims:
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म्हणउनी खेळ मांडियेला ऐसा — नाहीं कोणी दिशा वर्जीयेली — (He) set up such a khēḷa — no diśā excluded. The opening-claim: the deva set up thekhēḷa(game) such that no direction is excluded. All directions are part of the deva's khēḷa. (Compare 354 varṇa-dharma is His khēḷa; same khēḷa-frame.)
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माझिया गोतें हें वसलें सकळ — न देखिजे मूळ विटाळाचें — in my own gōta — all settled — no root of viṭāḷa seen. The gōta-rule: in my clan-circle, all is settled; no root of viṭāḷa (defilement) is seen anywhere. The viṭāḷa-categories don't apply within the bhakta-gōta. (Compare 245's upadeśa from any hand, 337 yāti-kuḷa apramāṇa; same anti-categorical-purity register.)
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करूनि ओळखी दिली एकसरें — न देखों दुसरें विषमासी — making oḷakhī given one-and-the-same — won't see another as viṣama. The oḷakhī-rule: acquaintance is given one-and-the-same; won't seedvitīya(another, second) asviṣama(hostile, uneven). No second-order-discrimination — nous-vs-them— within the deva-given oḷakhī.
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तुका म्हणे नाहीं काळापाशीं गोवा — स्थिति मति देवा वांचूनियां — Tuka says: no gōvā at kāḷa-pāśa — sthiti-mati except by deva. The closing-claim: no entanglement at thekāḷa-pāśa (death-noose); sthiti-mati (state-of-mind, mental-stability) — only by the deva. At the kāḷa-pāśa, only deva-given sthiti-mati holds.
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For someone today
Tukaram says God's play leaves no direction and no person out. Inside a true circle of devotion, ideas about who is pure and who is impure simply stop applying — that kind of sorting has no place there. Once you really recognize another person as your own, you stop seeing them as an enemy or an outsider. And when death comes, nothing else you were tangled up in will matter; only the steadiness of mind that God gives will hold you.
मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात की देवाच्या खेळात कोणतीही दिशा किंवा कोणीही वगळलेले नाही. जिथे खरी भक्ती जुळते, तिथे कोण शुद्ध आणि कोण अशुद्ध हा भेदच उरत नाही. एकदा तुम्ही दुसऱ्याला खरोखर आपलं मानलं, की तो शत्रू किंवा परका वाटेनासा होतो. आणि मृत्यूची वेळ येते तेव्हा बाकी सगळी बंधनं गळून पडतात — फक्त देवाने दिलेली मनाची स्थिरताच तेव्हा साथ देते.
Where this applies
- No diśā excluded from deva's khēḷa. All-directions-included.
- No root of viṭāḷa in gōta. Bhakta-fellowship.
- No another-as-viṣama. Anti-discrimination.
- At kāḷa-pāśa — only deva-given sthiti-mati. Death-stance.