Abhanga 570

English: Good — gēlē — today miḷālē.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A short household-relief-day-wife-content abhang. Continues the household-cluster but with a relief-tone. Three claims:

1. बरें जालें गेलें — आजी अवघें मिळालें — आतां खाईन पोटभरी — ओल्या कोरड्या भाकरी — good — gēlē — today miḷālē — now — pōṭa-bharī eat — wet-dry bhākarī. The opening-relief-claim: good — what came-and-went is over; today everything has miḷālē (gathered, come-together); now I will eat pōṭa-bharī (belly-full); wet or dry bhākarī (flatbread, jowar-roti). Small-relief: today the bhakari is enough; even wet-or-dry-bhakari satisfies a hungry-belly.

2. किती तरी तोंड — याशीं वाजवूं मी रांड — how much — mouth — vājavūm — I, rāṇḍa. The self-question-claim: how much should I vājavūm tōmḍa (beat-the-mouth, complain-aloud, go on-and-on)?; I, rāṇḍa (woman). Self-question: I, woman, how much-should-I-go-on-complaining? Self-restraint. (The vājavūm-tōmḍa idiom means "beat the mouth-drum" = complain-loudly-and-repeatedly.)

3. तुका बाइले मानवला — चीथू करूनियां बोला — Tuka — wife-pleased — cīṭhū spoken. The closing-domestic-image: Tuka — bāila (wife) was mānavalā (pleased / agreed-with); (after) speaking with cīṭhū (a sharp-tease, a scolding-with-affection). Wife-pleased-after-tease-and-scold. Husband-and-wife relation has its cīṭhū-of-affection. (After the household-distress of 0567-569, this is a small-relief-day.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the household-relief-day-wife-content register:

1. Good day: today gathered; eat belly-full of any bhakari. Bara jalē — miḷālē — pōṭa-bharī. Small-relief: a day when the bhakari is enough. Receive-the-small-relief.

2. How much should I, woman, beat-the-mouth? Vājavūm tōmḍa — rāṇḍa. Self-restraint after distress. Don't-go-on-and-on.

3. Wife pleased after a cīṭhū*-tease. Bāila mānavalā — cīṭhū bōlā. Domestic-image: husband-and-wife reconciled after sharp-affectionate-tease. Family-cost-of-bhakti-isn't-permanent-rupture*.

For today: household-relief-days come; small-pleasures (belly-full of any bhakari) suffice; self-restraint about complaint; the family-bond holds-through-the-bhakti-cost.

This abhang is Tukaram's household-relief-domestic register — between the household-distress-cluster and the relief, the family-tension exists but holds. Compare 0569 gōhō-jālā-dēvalasī; same cluster but here the relief-side. The cīṭhū-bōla image is precise: tease-with-affection that resolves a domestic-tension.

मराठी: ही ओवी household-relief-day-wife-content register नाव सांगते:

1. Good day: आज miḷālē*; कोणतीही bhakari belly-full. बरा जालें — मिळालें — पोट-भरी. Small-relief: bhakari-enough-असलेला-day. Small-relief receive करा*.

2. मी, woman, किती mouth वाजवू? वाजवू तोंड — रांड. Distress नंतर self-restraint. On-and-on नका.

3. Cīṭhū-tease नंतर wife-pleased. बाइले मानवला — चीथू बोला. Domestic-image: husband-and-wife sharp-affectionate-tease नंतर reconciled. Bhakti-cost permanent-rupture नाही*.

आज: Household-relief-days येतात; small-pleasures (कोणत्याही bhakari चं belly-full) पुरतात; Complaint बद्दल self-restraint; Bhakti-cost मधून family-bond holds.

Tukaram च-household-relief-domestic-register — Household-distress-cluster आणि relief च्या मधे, family-tension आहे पण holds. 0569 gōhō-jālā-dēvalasī compare; तीच cluster पण इथे relief-side. Cīṭhū-bōla image precise: domestic-tension resolve करणारा affection-tease.

Where this applies

• Day of miḷālē. Small-relief.
• Belly-full of bhakari. Small-contentment.
• Vājavūm tōmḍa — how much? Self-restraint.
• Cīṭhū-tease reconciles. Bond-holds.

Related verses

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