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Abhanga 539

A seeker who has truly let go of worldly craving stops judging life as good or bad, feels God filling the world around them, and gives themselves completely, with no second loyalty held back.

When the bhakta has turned the world's back — and you have to recognize this register

When no śubhāśubha, no harṣa-marṣa — Janārdana fills the world — and you accept this dissolution

When the deha is given once-for-all and there is no second — and you receive this finality

The verse

संवसार तीहीं केला पाठमोरा । नाहीं द्रव्य दारा जया चित्तीं ॥१॥ शुभाशुभ नाहीं हर्षामर्ष अंगीं । जनार्दन जगीं होउनि ठेला ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे देहें दिला एकसरें । जयासि दुसरें नाहीं मग ॥३॥

Literal translation

Samsāra — they made pāṭhamōrā — no dravya-dārā — citta. No śubhāśubha — no harṣa-marṣa — Janārdana — became — in world. Tuka says: deha — given — ēkasarē — for whom — no dusarē — then.

मराठी: संवसार तीहीं केला पाठमोरा — नाहीं द्रव्य दारा जया चित्तीं. शुभाशुभ नाहीं हर्षामर्ष अंगीं — जनार्दन जगीं होउनि ठेला. तुकाराम म्हणतां — देहें दिला एकसरें — जयासि दुसरें नाहीं मग.

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
संवसार तीहीं केला पाठमोरा	"samsāra — they made pāṭhamōrā"
नाहीं द्रव्य दारा जया चित्तीं	"no — dravya-dārā — citta"
शुभाशुभ नाहीं हर्षामर्ष अंगीं	"no śubhāśubha — no harṣa-marṣa"
जनार्दन जगीं होउनि ठेला	"Janārdana — became — in world"
देहें दिला एकसरें	"deha — given — ēkasarē"
जयासि दुसरें नाहीं मग	"for whom — no dusarē — then"

What it means

A world-back-turned-no-second abhang. Description of the saint's-final-state. Three claims:

संवसार तीहीं केला पाठमोरा — नाहीं द्रव्य दारा जया चित्तीं — samsāra they made pāṭhamōrā — no dravya-dārā in citta. The opening-back-turned-claim: they (the saints) have madesamsāra(the world-state)pāṭhamōrā(back-turned, behind-them); nodravya(wealth, money) ordārā(wife, woman) in theircitta. Saint-has-turned-his-back-on-the-world; no-wealth-no-woman-in-mind. (The dravya-dārā pair is the standard artha-kāma compressed: wealth and the desire-for-women / household-life.)
शुभाशुभ नाहीं हर्षामर्ष अंगीं — जनार्दन जगीं होउनि ठेला — no śubhāśubha — no harṣa-marṣa — Janārdana became in world. The dissolution-into-Janārdana-claim: nośubhāśubha(good-and-bad evaluations); noharṣa-marṣa(joy-and-rage emotions) on the body; Janārdana (the deva, the world-stirrer) — hōuni ṭhēlā (has become / has-stood) in the world.The pairs of evaluation-and-emotion dissolve; the deva-fills-the-world-instead.World-and-deva-merge.
तुका म्हणे देहें दिला एकसरें — जयासि दुसरें नाहीं मग — Tuka says: deha given ēkasarē — for whom no dusarē then. The closing-once-for-all-claim: Tuka says: thedeha(body) has been givenēkasarē(at-once, once-and-for-all); for whom (such a one) there is nodusarē(second / other) then. Body-given-once-no-other-allegiance. Final-state: no-second.

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For someone today

There is a state some seekers reach where they simply turn away from ordinary worldly craving; money and relationships built on desire no longer occupy their mind. They stop dividing life into good and bad, stop swinging between joy and anger, and instead experience God as present and filling everything around them. Tukaram says such a person has given their whole self, once and for all; there is no dividing that commitment or holding something back for a second loyalty.

मराठी: काही साधकांची अशी एक अवस्था असते जिथे ते सांसारिक हाव सोडून पूर्णपणे मागे वळतात; पैसा आणि वासनेवर आधारित नाती त्यांच्या मनाचा ताबा घेत नाहीत. ते चांगलं-वाईट असं मोजमाप करणं सोडून देतात, आनंद आणि रागाच्या हिंदोळ्यावर झुलत नाहीत, आणि त्याऐवजी देव सर्वत्र भरून राहिलेला त्यांना जाणवतो. तुकाराम म्हणतात अशा व्यक्तीने स्वतःला एकदाच आणि पूर्णपणे अर्पण केलेलं असतं; ती बांधिलकी विभागली जात नाही किंवा तिला दुसरी निष्ठा उरत नाही.

Where this applies

Back-turned to samsāra. No-dravya-dārā.
No evaluation, no emotion. Janārdana fills.
Deha once-for-all. No-second.
World transmuted not rejected. Janārdana-jagīm.

Bhakti deha-given-once-no-second