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Abhanga 580

Tukaram makes a bold claim: there is no happiness greater than peace, and everything else you chase is really just another form of suffering in disguise. Hold onto that peace and it becomes the very thing that carries you across to the far shore, out of struggle and into rest. When lust and anger flare up inside you, they don't stay in the mind, they spread into the body itself as real illness and unease. But when peace is genuinely held, Tukaram says the three kinds of suffering that trouble a person quietly resolve on their own, without you having to fight each one by hand.

When śānti is the greatest sukha — everything else is duḥkha — and you have to recognize this register

When kāma-krōdha excited fills the body with illness — and you accept this image

When the three-fold tāpa goes by itself when śānti is held — and you receive this rule

The verse

शांतीपरतें नाहीं सुख । येर अवघें ची दुःख ॥१॥ म्हणउनी शांति धरा । उतराल पैल तीरा ॥ध्रु.॥ खवळलिया कामक्रोधीं । अंगी भरती आधिव्याधी ॥२॥ म्हणे त्रिविध ताप । जाती मग आपेंआप ॥३॥

Literal translation

No sukha — beyond śānti — rest — all duḥkha. Thus — hold śānti — cross — paila tīra. Excited kāma-krōdha — body fills ādhi-vyādhi. Tuka says: tri-vidha-tāpa — go — āpēm-āpa.

मराठी: शांतीपरतें नाहीं सुख — येर अवघें ची दुःख. म्हणउनी शांति धरा — उतराल पैल तीरा. खवळलिया कामक्रोधीं — अंगी भरती आधिव्याधी. तुकाराम म्हणतां — त्रिविध ताप — जाती मग आपेंआप.

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
शांतीपरतें नाहीं सुख	"no sukha — beyond śānti"
येर अवघें ची दुःख	"rest — all duḥkha"
म्हणउनी शांति धरा	"thus — hold śānti"
उतराल पैल तीरा	"cross — paila tīra"
खवळलिया कामक्रोधीं	"kāma-krōdha — excited"
अंगी भरती आधिव्याधी	"body fills — ādhi-vyādhi"
त्रिविध ताप	"tri-vidha-tāpa"
जाती मग आपेंआप	"go — āpēm-āpa"

What it means

A śānti-greatest-sukha-tāpa-go-by-themselves abhang. Concise discipline-and-result register. Three claims:

शांतीपरतें नाहीं सुख — येर अवघें ची दुःख — म्हणउनी शांति धरा — उतराल पैल तीरा — no sukha — beyond śānti — rest — all duḥkha — thus — hold śānti — cross — paila tīra. The opening-rule: there is nosukhagreater thanśānti (peace);everything else is duḥkha; thus, holdśānti; you will cross to thepaila tīra(far shore). Śānti-as-greatest-sukha-and-the-bridge-to-far-shore.
खवळलिया कामक्रोधीं — अंगी भरती आधिव्याधी — kāma-krōdha — excited — body fills — ādhi-vyādhi. The causal-claim: whenkāma-krōdha(lust-and-anger) iskhavaḷalī(excited / inflamed); the body fills withādhi-vyādhi(mental-and-physical illness). Disturbed-mind-causes-body-illness. Bhakti-yoga-medicine: śānti is the body-medicine too.
म्हणे त्रिविध ताप — जाती मग आपेंआप — Tuka says: tri-vidha-tāpa — go — āpēm-āpa. The closing-result-claim: Tuka says: thetri-vidha-tāpa(three-fold suffering = ādhyātmika [self-caused], ādhibhautika [other-creature-caused], ādhidaivika [divine / accidental-caused]); goāpēm-āpa(by-themselves, on-their-own). When śānti is held, the three-fold-tāpa goes-by-itself. Self-going-of-tāpa.

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For someone today

मराठी: तुकाराम एक ठाम गोष्ट सांगतात: शांतीपेक्षा मोठं सुख नाही, आणि तुम्ही ज्याच्या मागे धावता ते बाकी सगळं दुःखाचंच दुसरं रूप असतं. ती शांती धरून ठेवा, आणि तीच तुम्हाला संघर्षातून बाहेर काढून पैलतीरी नेते, विश्रांतीच्या जागी. जेव्हा काम आणि क्रोध मनात भडकतात, तेव्हा ते फक्त मनातच राहत नाहीत, तर शरीरातही खरा आजार आणि अस्वस्थता निर्माण करतात. पण जेव्हा शांती खरोखर धरली जाते, तेव्हा तुकाराम म्हणतात की माणसाला त्रास देणारे तिन्ही प्रकारचे ताप आपोआप शमतात, प्रत्येकाशी वेगळी झुंज न देता.

Where this applies

Śānti— greatestsukha. Recognition.
Śānticrossespaila tīra. Bridge.
Kāma-krōdha→ādhi-vyādhi. Causal.
Tri-vidha-tāpa — self-go. Result.

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