Abhanga 649

Even without ever having a visible meeting with God, an unbroken inner spring of longing and devotion is already flowing and quietly sustains you.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A who-else-call-give-breast-akhaṇḍa-spring-sāhē abhang. Five-verse petition-with-flowing-spring register. Five claims:

1. तरि म्यां आळवावे कोणा — opening: whom āḷavāvē? — who fulfills vāsanā? — except You; lāvī stana kṛpāvanta. Mother-give-breast.

2. आपुला न विचारी सिण — don't-keep-far: don't reckon siṇa; no anga-sanga-bhinna; angīkāra-dīna; jīva-dāna of-fondness. Don't-distance-give-life.

3. माझिये मनासिहे आस — brahma-rasa-and-caraṇa-vāsa: mana-āśa; nitya brahma-rasa; akhaṇḍa caraṇa-vāsa; yācaka-āśa fulfill. Daily-and-perpetual-bhakti.

4. माझिया संचिताचा ठेवा — samcita-showed-vāṭa: samcita-treasure; vāṭa-shown; ādara-hēvā; sēvā-dāna fondness. Samcita-warrant.

5. आळवीन करुणावचनीं and closing — spring-flowing-sāhē: karuṇā-vacana āḷavīna; no other gōḍa; nidrā-jāgṛti-svapna rūpa held; bhēṭa or not — examine; jharā akhaṇḍa-flowing; sāhē in antara. Internal-spring-flowing.

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For someone today

Tukaram compares his longing to a child crying out for its mother's milk — there is no one else who can satisfy this deep craving except God. He asks not to be kept at a distance because he is poor and lowly, but to be embraced and given life out of love. All he wants is to taste that divine sweetness every day and to stay rooted at God's feet, keeping God's form in mind whether he is awake, asleep, or dreaming. He says that whether or not he ever has a visible meeting with God, an unbroken spring of devotion is already flowing quietly inside him, and that alone sustains and comforts him.

मराठी: तुकाराम आपली ओढ आईचे दूध मागणाऱ्या लहान बाळाच्या रडण्याशी जोडतात — ही खोल आस भागवू शकेल असे देवाशिवाय दुसरे कोणीच नाही. ते विनवतात की मी गरीब आणि लहान आहे म्हणून मला दूर लोटू नकोस, तर प्रेमाने जवळ घे आणि जीवदान दे. त्यांची एवढीच इच्छा आहे की रोज त्या दिव्य गोडीचा अनुभव घ्यावा आणि सतत देवाच्या चरणांशी राहावे, जागेपणी, झोपेत किंवा स्वप्नातही देवाचे रूप मनात धरावे. ते म्हणतात, प्रत्यक्ष भेट होवो किंवा न होवो, आतमध्ये एक अखंड झरा वाहतोच आहे आणि तोच त्यांना अंतरी आधार देतो.

Where this applies

• Whom else? Stana, kṛpāvanta. Mother.
• Akhaṇḍa caraṇa-vāsa. Continuous.
• All states — rūpa held. Constancy.
• Akhaṇḍa spring. Internal-flow.

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