Abhanga 723

This abhang names the Vedānta-merging-image register:

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A body-fused-colour-mixed-two-firmly-one-drop-in-ocean-not-separable abhang. Vedānta-merging-image register. Three claims:

1. अंग मुसावलं — रंगांत रंग मिळवला — एकीं एक दृढ — मुळा आपुल्या आलं. Body-fused-colour-mixed-claim. The anga has been mūsāvalē (fused-into-the-mould — like molten-metal poured into a mūsa-crucible takes-the-shape of the mould; here, the bhakta's body fused-into-Hari's mould); ranga (colour) has been mēḷavilā into ranga (one colour mixed-and-merged into another); the two have dṛḍha-jālē (firmly-become) ēka (one); come to (their) own mūḷa (root, source). Body-fused-colour-merged-firmly-one-came-to-root.

2. सागरांत थेंबुडा — कोण्या-वाटा-निवडे. Drop-in-ocean-claim. A thēmbuḍa (drop, droplet) fallen into the sāgara (ocean); by what vāṭā (path, way / direction) can it be nivaḍē (picked-out, separated-back)?. Drop-fallen-in-ocean-no-way-to-pick-it-out. (The classical bindu-sāgara* image of merging.)

3. Tuka: नवें — नव्हे — जाणावें हें, देवें. Now-not-separable-claim. Tuka says: navē (now); navhē (it is not — i.e., not-separable, not-back-to-two); jāṇāvē hē devē (know this, deva). Now-it's-not-separable; know-this-deva. (The bhakta tells the deva: now we are firmly merged; don't try-to-separate-us.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the Vedānta-merging-image register:

1. Body fused; colour mixed into colour; two firmly one; come to the root. Fused-merged-one.

2. A drop in the ocean cannot be picked out by any path. Drop-in-ocean.

3. Now — know this, deva — it's not separable. Not-separable.

For today: the bhakta's-body has been fused-into-the-deva's-mould; colour-merged into colour; two firmly become one; a drop in the ocean cannot be picked-out by any path; now it's not separable — know this, deva.

This abhang is Tukaram's Vedānta-merging-image-not-separable register — one of the most-Vedāntic abhangs in the corpus. Compare 0677 tāka-navanīta-niraseanāst (Tuka's mudra); same separation-image but in 0677 the result is separation-can't-be-undone (butter-and-buttermilk separated forever) — here, the inverse, merging-can't-be-undone (drop-in-ocean merged forever). The mūsāvalē-anga (body fused-in-mould) image is rare in bhakti-Marathi.

मराठी: ही ओवी Vedānta-merging-image register नाव सांगते:

1. अंग मुसावलं; रंग-रंग मिळवला; दोन-एक-दृढ; मुळा आलं. Fused-merged-one.

2. सागरांत-थेंबुडा कोण्या-वाटा निवडे. Drop-in-ocean.

3. नवें — नव्हे — जाणावें हें देवें. Not-separable.

आज: Bhakta-च-body deva-च्या-mould-त fused; colour-merged; two firmly-one; Sāgara-त-thēmbuḍā कोण्या-वाटा-नी-pick-out नाही; आतां not-separable — हें देवें-जाणावें.

Tukaram च-Vedānta-merging-image-not-separable-register — Most-Vedāntic abhangs corpus-त पैकी एक. 0677 tāka-navanīta-niraseanāst (Tuka mudra) compare; तीच separation-image पण 0677-त result separation-can't-be-undone (butter-buttermilk forever-separated) — इथे inverse, merging-can't-be-undone (drop-in-ocean forever-merged). Mūsāvalē-anga (body fused-in-mould) image bhakti-Marathi-त rare.

Where this applies

• Mūsāvalē anga.** Mould-image.
• Drop-in-ocean.* Merging.
• Not-separable.* Confidence.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2467
• Abhanga 4481
• Abhanga 4482
• Abhanga 4497