Abhanga 762

When you feel your time has been wasted and your mind won't stop dragging you toward overwhelm, the honest response is an urgent, unpolished cry for help right now.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A life-gone-vain-mind-no-gap-bhava-nadī-drown-viṣaya-stripped-śaraṇa-run-arrive abhang. Life-stripped-petition register. Five claims:

1. आयुष्य-वाया — थोर-नागवण — आतां-धांव-धांव — काय-पाहतोसी हरी. Life-gone-vain-now-run-claim. Āyuṣya (life) has gone vāyāmviṇa (in vain);thōra(great) has become thenāgavaṇa(stripping, robbery); now run-run-still; what are You looking-at, Hari?. Life-vain-and-great-stripping-Hari-run-now.

2. माझे-तुझे — गति — दिवस-गेले — तोंडीं-माती. Days-gone-dust-in-mouth-claim. Mine-and-Yours — only this is thegati(state, motion, situation); days have gone —tōṇḍīm mātī(dust-in-the-mouth, idiomatic for utterly-finished, defeated, dead). Days-gone-dust-in-mouth.

3. मन-वाव-न-देई — भव-नदी-बुडवूं-पाहे. Mind-no-gap-bhava-nadī-drown-claim. Themanadoesn't let me havevāva(gap, pause, breathing-space); thebhava-nadī(river-of-becoming) wants to drown (me). No-mental-pause-and-bhava-river-drowning.

4. विषय-घाला-पडला — नागविलें-मला. Viṣaya-attack-stripped-me-claim. Theviṣaya-ghālā(attack) has fallen; by this —nāgavilē malā(it has stripped me, robbed-me). Viṣaya-attack-stripped.

5. शरण-आलों-धांव — Tuka: माझ्या-कडे-पावें. Śaraṇa-run-arrive-claim. I have comeśaraṇa— now run; Tuka says: arrive for me. Now-arrive-on-call.

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For someone today

This abhang names the life-stripped-petition pattern:

1. Life gone in vain; a great stripping; now run, Hari! Life wasted, run to me.

2. Days gone, dust in the mouth. Days gone.

3. The mind allows no pause; the river of becoming wants to drown me. Mind and the river of becoming.

4. The attack of the senses stripped me. Stripped by the senses.

5. I have come for refuge — run; arrive. The final cry.

For today: life has gone in vain; the stripping has been great; the days are gone, leaving nothing but dust in the mouth; the mind allows no pause, and the river of becoming wants to drown me; the attack of the senses has stripped me bare; I have come seeking refuge — Hari, run to me, arrive.

This abhang is one of the most urgent petitions in the corpus, built around life stripped bare and a final cry for God to arrive. Compare its companion, 0671, "what am I to do with this mind, Hṛṣīkeśa" — the same urgent cry, but here it is specifically about life gone to waste and being stripped by sense-attachment. "Dust in the mouth" is exact: the days are utterly finished, completely defeated, ash in the mouth.

मराठी: ही ओवी जीवन-उघडे-पडलेल्या याचनेचा नमुना सांगते:

1. आयुष्य वाया गेले; मोठी नागवण झाली; आतां धांव, हरी! जीवन वाया गेले, धावत ये.

2. दिवस गेले, तोंडात माती. दिवस संपले.

3. मन क्षणभरही उसंत देत नाही; भवनदी बुडवू पाहते. मन आणि भवनदी.

4. विषयांच्या हल्ल्याने मला नागवले. विषयांनी नागवले.

5. शरण आलो — धांव; मला पाव. अंतिम आर्त हाक.

आजसाठी: आयुष्य वाया गेले आहे; नागवण मोठी झाली आहे; दिवस संपले, तोंडात फक्त माती उरली आहे; मन क्षणभरही उसंत देत नाही, भवनदी बुडवू पाहते; विषयांच्या हल्ल्याने मला उघडे केले आहे; मी शरण आलो आहे — हरी, धांव, माझ्यापाशी ये.

ही ओवी गाथेतील सर्वात आर्त याचनांपैकी एक आहे, जीवन उघडे पडणे आणि देवाला अंतिम हाक मारणे यांभोवती रचलेली. ओवी क्र. ०६७१ शी — "या मनाचे काय करू, हृषीकेशी" — तुलना करता येईल; तीच आर्त हाक आहे, पण इथे विशेषतः आयुष्य वाया जाणे आणि विषयासक्तीने नागवले जाणे याबद्दल आहे. "तोंडात माती" हा वाक्प्रचार नेमका आहे — दिवस पूर्णपणे संपले आहेत, संपूर्ण पराभव झाला आहे, तोंडात राखच उरली आहे.

Where this applies

• Life vain. Stripped.
• Days = mouth-dust. Defeat.
• Bhava-nadī drowns. Threat.
• Śaraṇa—run. Cry.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2387 — Accept whatever life brings with reverence, and place the burden on God rather than carryi
• Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and
• Abhanga 2540 — Even the smallest, most helpless creature that cries out to God in danger is sheltered and
• Abhanga 4581 — Tukaram closes his songs by confessing his own unworthiness and boldness, offering everyth