Abhanga 744
Simply living with awareness is itself worship, because everything belongs to God without exception, and God cannot be confined to one place or one set of qualities.
The verse
हे चि तुझी पूजा । आतां करीन केशीराजा ॥१॥ अवघीं तुझींच हें पदें । नमस्कारीन अभेदें ॥ध्रु.॥ न वर्जितदिशा । जाय तेथें चि सरिसा ॥२॥ नव्हे एकदेशी । तुका म्हणे गुणदोषीं ॥३॥
Literal translation
This — Your pūjā — now — do — Kēśīrāja. All — Your — padē — namaskāra — abhēda. No — varjita-diśā — where it goes — sarisā. Tuka says: not — ēka-dēśī — guṇa-dōṣīm.
मराठी: हें च तुझी पूजा — आतां करीन, केशीराजा. अवघीं तुझीं च हें पदें — नमस्कारीन अभेदें. दिशा-न-वर्जिता — जाय तेथें-च सरिसा. Tuka म्हणे: नव्हे एक-देशी — गुण-दोषीं.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| हे चि तुझी पूजा | "this — Your pūjā" |
| आतां करीन केशीराजा | "now — do — Kēśīrāja" |
| अवघीं तुझींच हें पदें | "all — Your — padē" |
| नमस्कारीन अभेदें | "namaskāra — abhēda" |
| न वर्जितदिशा | "no — varjita-diśā" |
| जाय तेथें चि सरिसा | "where it goes — sarisā — with-it" |
| नव्हे एकदेशी | "not — ēka-dēśī" |
| गुणदोषीं | "guṇa-dōṣa" |
What it means
A this-itself-is-Your-pūjā-all-padās-Yours-namaskāra-abhēda-no-direction-avoided-deva-not-eka-dēśī abhang. Vandanā-to-all-padās-non-dual register. Three claims:
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हें च तुझी पूजा — आतां करीन, Kēśīrāja — अवघीं पदें तुझीं च — नमस्कारीन अभेदें. This-itself-is-pūjā-all-padās-Yours-namaskāra-abhēda-claim. This-itself is Yourpūjā—now I will do, Kēśīrāja; all are Yourpadē(places / feet / words / verses); I willnamaskāra(salute) withabhēda(non-difference). Everything-Your-padās-and-namaskāra-without-bhēda.
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दिशा-न-वर्जिता — जाय तेथें-च सरिसा. No-direction-avoided-claim. I don'tvarjita(avoid, exclude) anydiśā(direction); wherever (it) goes —sarisā(equally, alongside, identical), with-it. Wherever-anything-goes-I-go-equally.
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Tuka: नव्हे एक-देशी — गुण-दोषीं. Deva-not-eka-dēśī-claim. Tuka says: (deva) is notēka-dēśī(one-place-bound, located-in-just-one-place); byguṇa-dōṣa(qualities-and-faults — i.e., not bound-by-this-or-that quality, present-or-absent). Deva-not-confined-by-quality-or-fault.
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For someone today
Tukaram says that simply living, right here and now, is itself the worship he offers, because everything around him already belongs to God, so he bows to all of it without drawing distinctions. He refuses to exclude any direction or place from that reverence; wherever life takes him, he goes along as an equal. God, he says, is not confined to one location or defined by a fixed set of qualities and faults; the divine is everywhere, not boxed in.
मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात, नुसते इथे-आत्ता जगणे हीच माझी पूजा आहे, कारण सभोवतालचे सगळे आधीच देवाचे आहे, म्हणून मी कोणताही भेद न करता सगळ्याला वंदन करतो. कोणतीही दिशा किंवा जागा या आदरातून वगळत नाही, जीवन जिथे नेईल तिथे समान भावाने जातो. देव एका जागी बांधलेला नाही, कोणत्याही ठराविक गुण-दोषांनी मर्यादित नाही, तो सर्वत्र आहे, कशातही कोंडलेला नाही.
Where this applies
- Avaghīm padē Yours. All-Yours.
- Abhēda namaskāra. Non-dual.
- Notēka-dēśī. Pervasion.