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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 695 of 4582

Abhanga 695

When a rare flood of joy and love arrives, do not wait it out alone, gather your people and dive into it together while it lasts.

When the flood of ānanda has come; waves of prēma rise — and you have to recognize this register
When let's tie the Viṭṭhal-raft and swim across; jana, jump-in! — and you accept this image
When this is not at all-times; by-great-puṇya the flow has come — and you receive this final invitation

The verse

पूर आला आनंदाचा । लाटा उसळती प्रेमाच्या ॥१॥ बांधूं विठ्ठलसांगडी । पोहुनि जाऊं पैल थडी । अवघे जन गडी । घाला उडी भाई नो ॥ध्रु.॥ हें तों नाहीं सर्वकाळ । अमुप अमृतांचें जळ ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे थोरा पुण्यें । ओघ आला पंथें येणें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Pūra of ānanda has-come — lāṭā of prēma rise. Let's tie the Viṭṭhal-sāngaḍī — swim — go to paila-thaḍī — all jana-gaḍī — jump-in, bhāī! This is not at sarva-kāḷaamupa (un-měasured) amṛta-jaḷa (amṛta-water). Tuka says: by-thōrā puṇyēōgha has-come on this panthē.

मराठी: आनंदाचा पूर आला — प्रेमाच्या लाटा उसळती. Viṭṭhal-सांगडी बांधूं — पोहुनि-पैल-थडीला जाऊं — अवघे जन-गडी, उडी घालां, भाई नो!. हें सर्वकाळ नाही — अमुप अमृतांचं जळ. Tuka म्हणे: थोऱ्या पुण्याने — ओघ आला पंथे येणें.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
पूर आला आनंदाचा "pūraānanda — has-come"
लाटा उसळती प्रेमाच्या "lāṭāprēma — rise"
बांधूं विठ्ठलसांगडी "let-us-tie — Viṭṭhal-sāngaḍī"
पोहुनि जाऊं पैल थडी "swim — go — paila-thaḍī"
अवघे जन गडी "all — jana-gaḍī"
घाला उडी भाई नो "ghālā uḍī bhāī nō (jump-in, brothers!)"
हें तों नाहीं सर्वकाळ "this — not — at sarva-kāḷa"
अमुप अमृतांचें जळ "amupaamṛta-jaḷa"
थोरा पुण्यें "by thōrā puṇyē"
ओघ आला पंथें येणें "ōgha — has-come — panthē yēṇē"

What it means

A pūr-of-ānanda-prēma-waves-Viṭṭhal-sāngaḍī-jump-in-brothers abhang. Flood-of-ānanda-call register. Three claims:

  1. आनंदाचा पूर — प्रेमाच्या लाटा. Flood-of-ānanda-claim. Thepūra(flood, river-in-spate) ofānandahas-come; waves (lāṭā) ofprēmarise. A flood-event, not a still-pond — turbulent, full, rising.

  2. Viṭṭhal-सांगडी बांधूं — पैल-थडीला पोहुनि — जन-गडी उडी-घालां. Viṭṭhal-raft-and-jump-in-claim. Let's tie theViṭṭhal-sāngaḍī(Viṭṭhal-raft, the float-bundle for crossing the river); swim — go to thepaila-thaḍī(far-shore); alljana-gaḍī(jana = people, gaḍī = comrade-friends, the comrade-crowd); jump-in,bhāī (brothers).Communal-call-to-cross-samsāra-on-Viṭṭhal-as-raft. (The image: the flood is full-and-rising; bind a raft usingViṭṭhal as the wood-pieces; jump in collectively and swim to the far-shore.)

  3. हें सर्वकाळ नाही — अमुप अमृतांचं जळ — Tuka: थोऱ्या-पुण्याने ओघ आला. Rare-flood-by-great-puṇya-claim. This is not atsarva-kāḷa(all-times) — = thisfloodofānanda-and-amṛtadoesn't come at every-time; the water isamupa(un-měasured / measureless)amṛta; Tuka says: by-thōrā puṇyē(great-puṇya, accumulated-merit) — theōgha(flow / current of the flood) has-come on thispanthā(path). Rare-flood; great-puṇya brought-the-current-on-this-path.

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For someone today

Tukaram describes a flood of joy rising, with waves of love surging like a river in full spate. His response is not to stand back and admire it but to call his friends to jump in with him, tying together a raft made of Vitthal and swimming together to the far shore. He is clear that this kind of flood does not come all the time, so when it does, you do not wait around, you seize the moment and pull others in with you. This is a lesson about joy and devotion as something communal and urgent: when real happiness or grace arrives, gather the people you care about and dive in together, because rare good fortune like this deserves to be shared, not saved for later.

मराठी: तुकाराम आनंदाचा एक पूर वर्णन करतात, प्रेमाच्या लाटा नदीसारख्या उसळत येतात. यावर त्यांचं उत्तर दुरून कौतुक करणं नाही, तर मित्रांना बोलावून सोबत उडी घेणं, विठ्ठलाची सांगडी बांधून एकत्र पैलतीराला पोहून जाणं. ते स्पष्ट सांगतात की असा पूर सतत येत नाही, म्हणून जेव्हा येतो तेव्हा वाट न पाहता क्षण पकडायचा आणि इतरांनाही सोबत घ्यायचं. हा धडा आनंद आणि भक्तीला सामूहिक आणि तातडीची गोष्ट मानतो — खरा आनंद किंवा कृपा आली की जवळच्या माणसांना बोलवा आणि एकत्र त्यात उडी घ्या, कारण असं दुर्मीळ भाग्य नंतरसाठी साठवण्याची गोष्ट नाही, वाटून घेण्याची आहे.

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