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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 589 of 4582

Abhanga 589

People end up poor and empty-handed because they've turned away from the divine, so notice the crowd's current before it sweeps you along with what is false.

When the world is durbaḷa and vimukha from Nārāyaṇa — and you have to recognize this register
When people go empty-handed and become pātra for daṇḍa — and you accept this image
When the falling-current of the false is shown — and you receive this final-image

The verse

दुर्बळ हें अवघें जन । नारायणीं विमुख ॥१॥ झाडोनियां हात जाती । पात्र होतीं दंडासी ॥ध्रु.॥ सिदोरी तें पापपुण्य । सवेंसिण भिकेचा ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे पडिला वाहो । कैसा पाहा हो लटिक्याचा ॥३॥

Literal translation

Durbaḷa — all janaNārāyaṇavimukha. Jhāḍōnīyām hāta jātīpātradaṇḍa. Sidōrīpāpa-puṇyasa-vēsiṇabhikha. Tuka says: paḍilā vāhō — see — laṭikyā.

मराठी: दुर्बळ हें अवघें जन — नारायणीं विमुख. झाडोनियां हात जाती — पात्र होतीं दंडासी. सिदोरी तें पापपुण्य — सवेंसिण भिकेचा. तुकाराम म्हणतां — पडिला वाहो — कैसा पाहा हो लटिक्याचा.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
दुर्बळ हें अवघें जन "durbaḷa — all jana"
नारायणीं विमुख "Nārāyaṇavimukha"
झाडोनियां हात जाती "jhāḍōnīyām hāta jātī"
पात्र होतीं दंडासी "pātradaṇḍa"
सिदोरी तें पापपुण्य "sidōrīpāpa-puṇya"
सवेंसिण भिकेचा "sa-vēsiṇabhikha"
पडिला वाहो "paḍilā vāhō"
कैसा पाहा हो लटिक्याचा "see — laṭikyā"

What it means

A world-vimukha-pāpa-puṇya-as-provisions abhang. Concise warning-to-the-vimukha register. Three claims:

  1. दुर्बळ हें अवघें जन — नारायणीं विमुखdurbaḷa — all jana — Nārāyaṇa — vimukha. The opening-claim: thejanais alldurbaḷa(poor, weak); (because)vimukha(turned-away) fromNārāyaṇa. World's-poverty-is-from-vimukha-Nārāyaṇa.

  2. झाडोनियां हात जाती — पात्र होतीं दंडासी — सिदोरी तें पापपुण्य — सवेंसिण भिकेचाjhāḍōnīyām hāta jātī — pātra — daṇḍa — sidōrī — pāpa-puṇya — sa-vēsiṇa — bhikha. The empty-hands-claim: (they) jhāḍōnīyām hāta jātī (wiping their hands, they go-empty-handed = depart-without-bringing);they become pātra (vessel, deserving) for the daṇḍa (Yama's-staff, punishment);their sidōrī (provisions for the journey) is the pāpa-puṇya (sin-merit-account);with the vēsiṇa (weariness) of bhikha (begging).They-go-empty-deserving-the-daṇḍa; their-only-provisions-are-the-pāpa-puṇya-account-and-the-weariness-of-begging.

  3. तुका म्हणे पडिला वाहो — कैसा पाहा हो लटिक्याचाTuka says: paḍilā vāhō — see — laṭikyā. The closing-falling-current-image: Tuka says:paḍilā vāhō(the falling-flow has-fallen); see, how thelaṭikyā(false-one, deceiver) is. See-the-falling-current-of-the-false. Don't-follow-the-falling-current.

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For someone today

Tukaram says that people everywhere are poor and weak not because of bad luck but because they've turned their faces away from Nārāyaṇa. He pictures them leaving this life empty-handed, wiping their hands as if they'd finished a meal they never actually had, and becoming fit only for punishment, because the only thing they carried with them was an account of their good and bad deeds, and the tired, hungry feeling of a life spent begging for scraps of meaning instead of the real thing. He warns us to watch that current: a whole crowd can be swept along following what is false, and the point is to notice it and refuse to be carried along with them.

मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात की माणसं सगळीकडे दुर्बळ आणि गरीब आहेत ती दैवामुळे नाही, तर त्यांनी नारायणाकडे पाठ फिरवली आहे म्हणून. ते चित्र रंगवतात की माणसं हात झाडून रिकाम्या हाताने या जगातून जातात, जणू न मिळालेलं जेवण संपवल्यासारखं, आणि त्यामुळे शिक्षेस पात्र होतात, कारण त्यांच्याजवळ फक्त पाप-पुण्याचा हिशोब असतो आणि खऱ्या अर्थाऐवजी भीक मागत जगण्याचा थकवा असतो. तुकाराम इशारा देतात की हा प्रवाह ओळखा — मोठा जनसमुदायसुद्धा खोट्याच्या मागे वाहत जाऊ शकतो, आणि हे ओळखून त्या प्रवाहात वाहत न जाणे हेच शहाणपण आहे.

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