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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 811 of 4582

Abhanga 811

Stop spending your tongue and attention on gossip about the faithless; turn that same energy toward remembering what is auspicious instead.

When let abhakta-kathā be; don't be disquieted in Hari-name — and you have to recognize this register
When don't take monkey's name in morning; same with abhakta — and you accept this image
When now let's remember mangaḷa; all-time sukha-rūpa — and you receive this final turn

The verse

आतां असों मना अभक्तांची कथा । न होई दुश्चिता हरिनामीं ॥१॥ नये त्याची कदा गोष्टी करूं मात । जिव्हे प्रायश्चित्त त्याच्या नांवें ॥ध्रु.॥ प्रभातें न घ्यावें नांव माकडाचें । तैसें अभक्ताचें सर्वकाळ ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे आतां आठवूं मंगळ । जेणें सर्व काळ सुखरूप ॥३॥

Literal translation

Now — let-be — abhakta-kathādu-ścitāHari-nāma. Don't — kadā — gōṣṭi karūmjihvāprāyaścitta — his-name. Prabhātamākaḍa-nāmvaabhaktasarva-kāḷa. Tuka says: āṭhavūm mangaḷa — all-time — sukha-rūpa.

मराठी: आतां असों, मना — अभक्तांची कथा — न होई दुश्चिता हरि-नामीं. नये त्याची कदा गोष्टी करूं — मात — जिव्हेला प्रायश्चित्त, त्याच्या नांवें. प्रभातें न घ्यावें नांव माकडाचें — तैसें अभक्ताचें सर्व-काळ. Tuka म्हणे: आतां आठवूं मंगळ — जेणें सर्व-काळ सुख-रूप.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
आतां असों मना अभक्तांची कथा "now — let-be — abhakta-kathā"
न होई दुश्चिता हरिनामीं "du-ścitāHari-nāma"
नये त्याची कदा गोष्टी करूं मात "don't — kadā — gōṣṭi karūm"
जिव्हे प्रायश्चित्त त्याच्या नांवें "jihvāprāyaścitta — name"
प्रभातें न घ्यावें नांव माकडाचें "prabhātamākaḍa-nāmva"
तैसें अभक्ताचें सर्वकाळ "abhaktasarva-kāḷa"
आठवूं मंगळ "āṭhavūm mangaḷa"
जेणें सर्व काळ सुखरूप "all-time — sukha-rūpa"

What it means

A let-abhakta-kathā-be-don't-be-disquieted-don't-talk-name-monkey-name-not-in-morning-same-abhakta-let's-remember-mangaḷa abhang. Turn-from-abhakta-to-mangaḷa register. Three claims:

  1. मना-अभक्त-कथा-असों — हरि-नाम-दुश्चिता-न-होई — गोष्टी-न-करूं — जिव्हे-प्रायश्चित्त-नामें. Let-abhakta-kathā-be-claim. Now, mind, let theabhakta-kathābe (let-go); don't becomedu-ścitā(dis-quieted, distracted) inHari-nāma; don't ever make-talk (gōṣṭi karūm māta) of him; for thejihvā,prāyaścittais needed (just) for-his-name. Talking-his-name-needs-tongue-penance.

  2. प्रभातें-माकड-नांव-न-घ्यावें — अभक्त-सर्व-काळ-तैसें. Don't-take-monkey-name-in-morning-same-with-abhakta-claim. Inprabhāta(morning), don't take the name ofmākaḍa(monkey — inauspicious to take in morning); the same withabhakta— atsarva-kāḷa(all times). Monkey-name-not-morning-abhakta-name-never.

  3. Tuka: मंगळ-आठवूं — सर्व-काळ-सुख-रूप. Remember-mangaḷa-claim. Tuka says: now let'sāṭhavūm mangaḷa(remember the auspicious — i.e., remember Hari-nāma, themangaḷaitself); by which all-time issukha-rūpa. Remember-mangaḷa-all-time-sukha-rūpa.

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For someone today

Tukaram tells his own mind to simply let the matter of unfaithful people drop, so that it does not get pulled away from remembering the divine name. He says talking about them at all costs the tongue a kind of penance, the same way it is considered bad luck to say a monkey's name first thing in the morning. His answer is not more argument or more complaining, it is a turn: right now, let us remember what is auspicious instead, because that is what keeps every moment at peace. The lesson is practical: notice when you are spending your breath cataloguing other people's faults, and redirect that same breath toward something that actually nourishes you.

मराठी: तुकाराम स्वतःच्या मनाला सांगतात की अभक्तांची कथा आता सोडून द्या, जेणेकरून हरिनामाच्या स्मरणापासून मन विचलित होणार नाही. ते म्हणतात की त्यांच्याबद्दल बोलणंसुद्धा जिभेला एक प्रकारचं प्रायश्चित्त आहे, जसं सकाळी उठल्यावर माकडाचं नाव घेणं अशुभ मानलं जातं. त्यांचं उत्तर आणखी वाद घालणं किंवा तक्रार करणं नाही, तर मन दुसरीकडे वळवणं आहे, आता आपण मंगल गोष्टीचं स्मरण करू, कारण त्यानेच प्रत्येक क्षण सुखरूप राहतो. यातली शिकवण व्यवहारी आहे, तुम्ही दुसऱ्यांचे दोष मोजण्यात किती श्वास खर्च करता हे लक्षात घ्या, आणि तोच श्वास तुम्हाला खरोखर पोषण देणाऱ्या गोष्टीकडे वळवा.

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