Abhanga 738

Discipline your own speech directly, stop the idle babble, and let it hold on to what you already know truly matters.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A address-to-vaikharī-hold-remembrance-don't-babble-Viṭṭhal-Viṭṭhal-svāmī-knowledge abhang. Address-to-vāṇī register. Three claims:

1. आतां-पुढें-धरीं — माझा-आठव-vaikharī. Vaikharī-hold-remembrance-claim. Now, ahead,hold (my) āṭhava (remembrance, mindfulness, recollection);(O) vaikharī (gross-speech).Vaikharī-hold-the-remembrance.

2. बडबडूं-नको-भांडे — वाउगें-रांडे. Don't-babble-pot-vain-claim. Don'tbaḍabaḍa(babble, gabble),bhāṇḍa(pot, hollow-pot — addressed-to-vāṇī as a hollow-vessel that just-rattles); anythingvāugē(vain, useless),rāṇḍē(wretched-feminine, idiomatic-scolding-form, here addressed-to-the-vāṇī). Don't-babble-vainly-vāṇī.

3. Viṭṭhal-Viṭṭhal — इतर बोल सांडून — तुज-स्वामीची-जाण. Viṭṭhal-Viṭṭhal-leave-other-svāmī-knowledge-claim. (Say)Viṭṭhal Viṭṭhal— leave-aside otherbōla(words); Tuka says:āṇa(an oath / a promise / a bond); you (vāṇī) havejāṇa(knowledge) of thesvāmī. Vāṇī-already-knows-the-svāmī-just-Viṭṭhal-Viṭṭhal.

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For someone today

Tukaram turns and addresses his own speech directly, as though it were a separate being. He tells it to hold on to remembrance from now on, and scolds it sharply: stop babbling like a hollow, rattling pot, stop wasting itself on useless chatter. Say only Viṭṭhal, Viṭṭhal, he tells it, and drop every other word. Tuka reminds his own voice: you already know who your master is, so don't betray that knowledge.

मराठी: तुकाराम स्वतःच्या वाणीशी जणू ती वेगळी असल्यासारखे थेट बोलतात. ते तिला सांगतात, आतापासून माझी आठवण धरून राहा, आणि तिला कडक शब्दांत सुनावतात — पोकळ भांड्यासारखं बडबडणं थांबव, फुकट बडबड करून वेळ घालवू नकोस. फक्त विठ्ठल विठ्ठल म्हण, बाकी सगळे शब्द सोडून दे, असे ते तिला सांगतात. तुका आपल्याच वाणीला आठवण करून देतात — तुला तुझा स्वामी कोण आहे हे माहीत आहे, तेव्हा ते ज्ञान विसरू नकोस.

Where this applies

• Vaikharī, hold. Address.
• Don't babble. Discipline.
• Viṭṭhal-Viṭṭhal. Only-words.

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