Abhanga 636

A long-held longing can finally be fulfilled through steady devotion, but the real work is refusing to let your resolve waver once your eyes are open.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A cintita-fulfilled-eyes-opened-saint-kṛpā abhang. Five-verse fulfillment-with-thankful-acknowledgement register. Five claims:

1. होतों तें चिंतीत मानसीं — opening-cintita-fulfilled: cintita-mānasa; navasa fulfilled by navasa; joined Nārāyaṇa; avīṭa-no-nāśa. Wish-fulfilled-with-imperishable.

2. धरिले जीवीं न सोडीं पाय — won't-release-feet: held-in-jīva; won't-release feet; what jīvitva?; when ṭhāya?; sōya-samcita-set. Held-feet.

3. मज तों पडियेली होती भुली — eyes-opened-from-mṛga-jaḷa: I had fallen bhuli; citta's apa-savya walking; mṛga-jaḷa-gōvī made; dṛṣṭi opened — barē. Mirage-eyes-opened.

4. आतां हा सिद्धी पावो भाव — bhāva-reach-siddhi-no-cāñcalya: bhāva reach siddhi; cāñcalya not in middle; plead-kīmva; kṛpāḷu jagad-dānī. Don't-let-cāñcalya-disrupt.

5. कळों येतें आपुले बुद्धी ... तुका चरणीं लोळतसे — closing-saints-kṛpā: by own buddhi never-happens; āghāta in middle; lajjā-riddhi obstacle; saint-jana's kṛpā; my vāṇī adorned; prīti set in kīrtana; Tuka rolls at caraṇa. Saints-adorned-my-vāṇī-set-prīti-in-kīrtana.

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For someone today

Tukaram says the thing he had long been longing for in his mind has finally come true, vow after vow, and he has reached a bond with God that nothing can undo. Now that he holds on, he refuses to let go, asking what ordinary life is even worth without this. He admits he had been walking in a daze, chasing what turned out to be a mirage, and only now has his sight really opened, which he calls a good thing. But opening your eyes once is not enough, he prays that this faith will hold firm and not waver halfway through. He is honest that knowing the right path in your own mind is not the same as living it, because things like embarrassment and pride in your own success can stand right in the way. In the end, he says it was the grace and company of good people, saints, that gave shape to his words and put love into his singing, and he simply lies down at their feet in gratitude.

मराठी: तुकाराम सांगतात की मनात खूप दिवसांपासून जे हवे होते ते नवसांमागून नवस करत अखेर पूर्ण झाले, आणि आता देवाशी असे नाते जुळले आहे जे कधीही तुटणार नाही. एकदा हे हाती लागल्यावर ते सोडायची इच्छा नाही, आणि हे सगळे नसते तर या जगण्याला काय अर्थ होता असा प्रश्न ते विचारतात. आपण भ्रमात, दिशाहीन चालत होतो, मृगजळामागे धावत होतो हे ते मान्य करतात, आणि आता कुठे खरी दृष्टी उघडली आहे, हे चांगले झाले असे ते म्हणतात. पण एकदा डोळे उघडणे पुरेसे नाही, म्हणून ही श्रद्धा मध्येच डळमळू नये अशी ते कळकळीने विनंती करतात. आपल्याच बुद्धीने योग्य मार्ग कळणे आणि तो प्रत्यक्ष जगणे यात फरक असतो हे ते प्रामाणिकपणे मान्य करतात, कारण लज्जा आणि स्वतःच्या यशाचा गर्व यांसारख्या गोष्टी आडवा येतात. शेवटी ते सांगतात की संतांच्या सहवासाच्या कृपेनेच त्यांच्या वाणीला रूप मिळाले आणि कीर्तनात प्रेम रुजले, आणि म्हणून तुकाराम त्यांच्या चरणी लोटांगण घालतात.

Where this applies

• Cintita fulfilled. Wish.
• Mṛga-jaḷa — eyes-opened. Mirage-recognized.
• No cāñcalya in middle. Continuity.
• Saints adorned vāṇī. Acknowledgement.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2464 — For today: Pāṇḍuranga is sukha-rūpa ; no wandering, no shaving, no sādhana-pressure ; Chan
• Abhanga 2490 — The divine is most reachable through the living presence of a true saint, not through a di
• Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and
• Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with