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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 795 of 4582

Abhanga 795

After all the arguing is done, real devotion is simple: stop striving, remember, and sing with your heart fixed on what you love.

When let this business be — I'll remember Govinda — and you have to recognize this register
When if You protect, what should others do — and you accept this image
When I'll sing in song, holding the rūpa in citta — and you receive this final resolution

The verse

असो आतां ऐसा धंदा । तुज गोविंदा आठवूं ॥१॥ रक्षिता तूं होसी जरी । तरि काय येरीं करावें ॥ध्रु.॥ काया वाचा मन पायीं । राहे ठायीं करूं तें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे गाइन गीतीं । रूप चित्तीं धरूनियां ॥३॥

Literal translation

Let-be — aisā dhandā — You — Govinda — remember. Rakṣitā — You — become — if — then — what — others — do. Kāya-vāca-manapāyīm — abide — ṭhāyīm — do — that. Tuka says: sing — gītīrūpacitta — holding.

मराठी: असो आतां ऐसा धंदा — तुज, Govindā, आठवूं. रक्षिता तूं होसि जरी — तरि येरीं काय करावें?. कायामन-वाचा-पायीं — राहे ठायीं, तें करूं. Tuka म्हणे: गाइन गीतीं — रूप चित्तीं धरूनियां.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
असो आतां ऐसा धंदा "let-be — aisā dhandā"
तुज गोविंदा आठवूं "You — Govinda — remember"
रक्षिता तूं होसी जरी "rakṣitā — You — become — if"
तरि काय येरीं करावें "then — what — others — do"
काया वाचा मन पायीं "kāya-vāca-manapāyīm"
राहे ठायीं करूं तें "abide — ṭhāyīm — do — that"
गाइन गीतीं "sing — gītī"
रूप चित्तीं धरूनियां "rūpacitta — holding"

What it means

A let-this-business-be-Govinda-I'll-remember-You-protector-others-no-need-kāya-vāca-mana-at-feet-sing-rūpa-in-citta abhang. Let-business-be-only-Govinda register. Three claims:

  1. असो-धंदा-ऐसा — Govinda-आठवूं — रक्षिता-You-तरी-येरीं-काय. Let-business-be-Govinda-remember-claim. Let thisdhandā(business — i.e., the polemics-or-worldly-engagements I've been on) be; I'llāṭhavūm(remember) You, Govinda; if You become therakṣitā(protector), then what (need) for others to do?. Let-this-business-be-Govinda-only-protector. (After the long-anti-fake-religion-polemics 0784-794, Tukaram now turns-back to surrender: let me leave-all-this-and-just-remember-Govinda.)

  2. Kāya-vāca-mana — पायीं — राहे-ठायीं-तें-करूं. Kāya-vāca-mana-at-feet-claim. Kāya-vāca-mana at the pāyīm; abide there (in thatṭhāya), do that. Three-faculties-at-feet-abide-there.

  3. Tuka: गाइन-गीतीं — रूप-चित्तीं. Sing-rūpa-in-citta-claim. Tuka says: I'll sing ingītī; holding therūpain thecitta. Sing-in-gīti-rūpa-in-citta.

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For someone today

After all his arguing about false gods and false teachers, Tukaram steps back and simplifies everything. Let the whole business of debating and striving be, he says, I will just keep remembering you, Govinda. If you are truly my protector, he asks, why do I need anyone or anything else to look after me? So he lets his body, speech, and mind settle quietly at Vitthal's feet and rest there, and instead of arguing he simply sings, holding that beloved form in his heart. It is a reminder that after all the analyzing and correcting, the real practice is simple: stop striving, remember, and sing.

मराठी: इतकी सगळी खोटे देव आणि खोटे गुरू यांच्याविरुद्ध युक्तिवाद केल्यानंतर तुकाराम एक पाऊल मागे घेतात आणि सगळं सोपं करून टाकतात. हा सगळा वाद-विवाद, ही धडपड असो, ते म्हणतात, मी फक्त तुला, गोविंदा, आठवत राहीन. जर तूच खरा माझा रक्षणकर्ता आहेस, तर मला इतर कोणाची किंवा कशाची गरज आहे, असा प्रश्न ते विचारतात. म्हणून ते आपलं शरीर, वाणी आणि मन शांतपणे विठ्ठलाच्या पायाशी स्थिर करतात आणि तिथे विसावतात, आणि वाद घालण्याऐवजी ते फक्त गातात, ते प्रिय रूप हृदयात धरून. यातून हा बोध मिळतो की इतकं सगळं विश्लेषण आणि सुधारणा केल्यानंतरही खरी साधना साधी असते — धडपड थांबवा, स्मरण करा आणि गा.

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