Abhanga 816

Real inner renunciation can happen quietly, through tiredness and grace, without any dramatic outward act, and it can genuinely free you from the guilt of what you failed to do.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A tyāga-without-going-out-Viṭhṭhal-in-mind-tired-sahaja-disenchantment-deha-heavy-with-debt-samsāra-distressed-āḷasa-gone-akartavya-doṣa-removed abhang. Autobiographical-confession register. Three claims:

1. त्याग-न-वजतां-केला — Viṭhṭhal-मनांतूनि — भागलिया-उबग-सहज — न-धरितां-काज-मनीं. Tyāga-without-going-out-claim. Tyāga has-been-done by me — without my-going-out (i.e., without leaving home, becoming-formal-sannyāsin);anything (in-the-mind), Viṭhṭhal; when tired (bhāgaliyā),sahaja(natural)ubaga(disenchantment) came; without mydharitām(holding-on / deliberately-resolving), thekāja(work, the spiritual-task) came-into-mind. Tyāga-without-formal-renunciation; sahaja-disenchantment-came-from-tiredness.

2. देह-जड-ṛṇa-आभार — samsāra-कासावीस. Deha-heavy-with-debt-samsāra-distressed-claim. Thedehabecamejaḍa(heavy) withṛṇa'sābhāra(load — debt's-burden); samsāra has-made (me)kāsā-vīsa(distressed, agitated, tortured). Debt-heavy-samsāra-distressed. (Likely-autobiographical: Tukaram's family-debts and samsāra-troubles.)

3. Tuka: गेला-āḷasa-kaḷisa — अकर्तव्य-दोष-निवारिले. Āḷasa-gone-akartavya-doṣa-removed-claim. Tuka says: theāḷasa-kaḷisa(laziness-element, sluggish-portion) has-gone; theakartavya-dōṣa(the fault-of-not-doing-what-should-be-done) isnivārilē(removed). Laziness-gone-akartavya-doṣa-cleared.

This abhang reads-autobiographically: Tukaram describes-his-own-trajectory — tyāga without leaving home, natural-disenchantment from tiredness/samsāra-distress, deha-heavy-with-debt, and finally āḷasa-cleared, akartavya-doṣa-removed. (The akartavya-dōṣa — fault-of-not-doing-what-should-be-done — is removed by-the-natural-disenchantment-and-bhakti-now-arising.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the autobiographical-confession pattern:

1. Renunciation happened without my going out into the world; whatever was in my mind was Vitthal; when tired, a natural weariness with things came on its own. Renunciation and natural weariness.

2. The body grew heavy under the burden of debt; family life left me distressed. Heavy with debt.

3. The sluggishness of laziness has gone; the fault of leaving undone what should be done has been cleared. Transformation.

For today: the devotee confesses that renunciation happened without any formal leaving of home — whatever occupied his mind was already Vitthal; when worn out by family life, a natural disenchantment simply arose, without his deliberately seeking it, and the spiritual task came into his mind on its own; the body had grown heavy under the weight of debt, and family life had left him distressed; but now the sluggishness of laziness is gone, and the fault of leaving undone what should be done has been cleared.

This abhang is one of the most revealing of Tukaram's own life story — a confession of natural disenchantment leading to the clearing of that old fault of neglected duty. Compare 0672, where the same autobiographical tone appears in the story of the village rejecting him and the headman's anger driving him to search for Vitthal alone — but here the trajectory is a positive one: the distress of family life led to a natural disenchantment and, finally, to the fault of neglect being cleared. "The fault of leaving undone what should be done has been cleared" is the precise claim of this transformation.

मराठी: ही ओवी आत्मकथनपर-कबुलीचा नमुना सांगते:

1. त्याग घराबाहेर न जाताच घडला; मनात जे काही होते ते विठ्ठलच होते; थकल्यावर सहजच एक स्वाभाविक विरक्ती आली. त्याग आणि स्वाभाविक विरक्ती.

2. कर्जाच्या भाराने देह जड झाला; संसाराने कासावीस केले. कर्जाचा भार.

3. आळसाचा जडपणा गेला; करायचे राहून गेलेल्या गोष्टींचा दोष दूर झाला. परिवर्तन.

आजसाठी: भक्त कबूल करतो की त्याग घराबाहेर न जाताच, औपचारिक संन्यास न घेताच घडला — मनात जे काही होते ते विठ्ठलच होते; संसाराने थकल्यावर स्वतःहूनच एक स्वाभाविक विरक्ती आली, ती शोधल्याशिवाय; आणि आध्यात्मिक कार्य आपसूकच मनात आले; कर्जाच्या भाराने देह जड झाला होता, संसाराने कासावीस केले होते; पण आतां आळसाचा जडपणा गेला आहे, आणि करायचे राहून गेलेल्या गोष्टींचा दोष दूर झाला आहे.

ही ओवी तुकारामांच्या स्वतःच्या जीवनप्रवासाचे सर्वात उघड दर्शन घडवणाऱ्या ओव्यांपैकी एक आहे — स्वाभाविक विरक्तीतून कर्तव्य-दुर्लक्षाचा जुना दोष दूर होण्याची कबुली. ओवी क्र. ०६७२ शी तुलना करता येईल — तिथेही हाच आत्मकथनपर सूर आहे, गाव नाकारते आणि पाटलाच्या रागामुळे तुकाराम एकट्याने विठ्ठलाचा शोध घेतात — पण इथे प्रवास सकारात्मक आहे: संसाराच्या त्रासातून स्वाभाविक विरक्ती आली आणि अखेर दुर्लक्षाचा दोष दूर झाला. "करायचे राहून गेलेल्या गोष्टींचा दोष दूर झाला" हाच या परिवर्तनाचा नेमका दावा आहे.

Where this applies

• Tyāga without going-out. Internal.
• Sahaja disenchantment. Natural.
• Akartavya-dōṣa removed. Result.

Related verses

• Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with
• Abhanga 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-center
• Abhanga 4483 — Tukaram tells of the gopis whose all-consuming secret longing for Krishna, hidden beneath
• Abhanga 4495 — Tukaram tells how Krishna's mother and the cowherd families, absorbed in their own practic