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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 631 of 4582

Abhanga 631

When your own attachments have trapped you and time feels short, ask to be entrusted to a caring community instead of relying on your own strength.

When the bhakta is pressed by many burdens and asks the deva to come close — and you have to recognize this register
When entrust me to saints; don't make me udāsa — and you accept this petition
When all siddhi at Your feet — and you receive this final-claim

The verse

न पवे सन्निध वाटते चिंता । वरि या बहुतांची सत्ता । नुगवे पडत जातो गुंता । कर्मा बळिवंता सांपडलों ॥१॥ बहु भार पडियेला शिरीं । मी हें माझें मजवरी । उघड्या नागविलों चोरीं । घरिच्याघरीं जाणजाणतां ॥ध्रु.॥ तुज मागणें इतुलें आतां । मज या निरवावें संतां । जाला कंठस्फोट आळवितां । उदास आतां न करावें ॥२॥ अति हा निकट समय । मग म्यां करावें तें काय । दिवस गेलिया टाकईल छाय । उरईल हाय रातिकाळीं ॥३॥ होईल संचिताची सत्ता । अंगा येईल पराधीनता । ठाव तो न दिसे लपतां । बहुत चिंता प्रवर्तली ॥४॥ ऐसी या संकटाची संधी । धांव घालावी कृपानिधी । तुका म्हणे माझी बळबुद्धी । सकळ सिद्धी पाय तुझे ॥५॥

Literal translation

Don't come sannidhacintā — many sattā above. Ugavē not — gumtā — powerful karma caught. Much bhāra on śira — me-and-mine on me — robbed-cōrī — home knowing. Entrust to saints — kaṇṭha-sphōṭa calling — don't udāsa. Near samaya — what then? — day-shadow-falls — hāya rāti-kāḷa. Samcita sattāparadhīntā body — cintā prevailed. Samkaṭa-samdhi — run, kṛpā-nidhibaḷa-buddhi — all siddhi feet, Tuka says.

मराठी: न पवे सन्निध वाटते चिंता — वरि या बहुतांची सत्ता — नुगवे पडत जातो गुंता — कर्मा बळिवंता सांपडलों. बहु भार पडियेला शिरीं — मी हें माझें मजवरी — उघड्या नागविलों चोरीं — घरिच्याघरीं जाणजाणतां. तुज मागणें इतुलें आतां — मज या निरवावें संतां — जाला कंठस्फोट आळवितां — उदास आतां न करावें. अति हा निकट समय — मग म्यां करावें तें काय — दिवस गेलिया टाकईल छाय — उरईल हाय रातिकाळीं. होईल संचिताची सत्ता — अंगा येईल पराधीनता — ठाव तो न दिसे लपतां — बहुत चिंता प्रवर्तली. तुकाराम म्हणतां — ऐसी या संकटाची संधी — धांव घालावी कृपानिधी — माझी बळबुद्धी — सकळ सिद्धी पाय तुझे.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
न पवे सन्निध "doesn't come sannidha"
वरि या बहुतांची सत्ता "many sattā above"
नुगवे पडत जातो गुंता "ugavē not — gumtā"
कर्मा बळिवंता सांपडलों "powerful karma — caught"
बहु भार पडियेला शिरीं "much bhāra on śira"
मी हें माझें मजवरी "me-and-mine on me"
उघड्या नागविलों चोरीं "robbed-naked openly by cōrī"
घरिच्याघरीं जाणजाणतां "at home knowing-and-known"
मज या निरवावें संतां "entrust to saints"
जाला कंठस्फोट आळवितां "kaṇṭha-sphōṭa — calling"
उदास आतां न करावें "don't make udāsa"
अति हा निकट समय "very near samaya"
दिवस गेलिया टाकईल छाय "day-goes — shadow-falls"
उरईल हाय रातिकाळीं "hāyarāti-kāḷa"
संचिताची सत्ता "samcita sattā"
अंगा येईल पराधीनता "paradhīntā into body"
बहुत चिंता प्रवर्तली "much cintā"
संकटाची संधी "samkaṭa-samdhi"
धांव घालावी कृपानिधी "run-throw, kṛpā-nidhi"
माझी बळबुद्धी "my baḷa-buddhi"
सकळ सिद्धी पाय तुझे "all siddhi — Your feet"

What it means

A pressed-by-burdens-entrust-to-saints-all-siddhi-at-feet abhang. Five-verse petition register. Five claims:

  1. न पवे सन्निधopening-distance: doesn't come close — cintā — many sattā above; ugavē not — gumtā — powerful karma caught. Distance-and-knot.

  2. बहु भार पडियेला शिरींrobbed-at-home: much bhāra on śira — me-and-mine on me — robbed-naked-openly by cōrīm — at home knowing-and-known. Robbed-knowingly.

  3. तुज मागणें इतुलें आतांentrust-to-saints: only this to ask — entrust me to saints — kaṇṭha-sphōṭa from calling — don't udāsa. Saint-entrustment-petition.

  4. अति हा निकट समयnear-samaya-day-shadow: very near samaya; day-goes-shadow-falls; hāya at rāti-kāḷa; samcita sattā will come; paradhīntā into body; cintā prevailed. Time-near-fear.

  5. ऐसी या संकटाची संधीclosing-all-siddhi-at-feet: in samkaṭa-samdhi, run-and-throw-Yourself, kṛpā-nidhi; my baḷa-buddhi; all siddhi at Your feet. Final-petition-and-claim.

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For someone today

Tukaram admits he is tangled in a mess of his own making, that his own attachments have robbed him blind, knowingly, in his own home. He is not asking for a miracle, only one thing: hand him over to the community of saints and do not let him sink into despair while he is calling out. He can feel time running short, the way daylight fades into shadow and then into the ache of night, and he knows the weight of his past choices will catch up with him and leave him with nowhere to hide. So in that crisis he calls for grace to rush toward him, admitting his own strength and cleverness are worthless, and placing everything at God's feet instead.

मराठी: तुकाराम कबूल करतात की ते स्वतःच्याच मोहमायेच्या गुंत्यात अडकले आहेत, आणि आपल्याच घरात, जाणतेपणी, आपल्याच आसक्तींनी स्वतःला लुबाडले आहे. ते कोणताही चमत्कार मागत नाहीत, फक्त एकच विनंती करतात, त्यांना संतांच्या हवाली करावे आणि हाक मारत असताना निराश होऊ देऊ नये. वेळ जवळ आल्याची जाणीव त्यांना होते, जसा दिवस मावळून सावली पडते आणि रात्री दुःख उरते, आणि आपल्या भूतकाळातल्या कर्मांचे परिणाम गाठतील व लपायला जागा उरणार नाही याचीही त्यांना जाणीव आहे. म्हणून या संकटाच्या क्षणी ते कृपेने धावून येण्याची विनवणी करतात, स्वतःचे बळ आणि बुद्धी काहीच नाहीत हे मान्य करून, सर्वस्व देवाच्या पायी अर्पण करतात.

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