Abhanga 823

English: Ādi-madhya-anta — shown — by-dīpa.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A lamp-shows-ādi-madhya-anta-yet-yatna-yours-dāsatva-shows-storehouse-but-not-essence-upāya-destroys-sōsa-sattā-bala-to-anga-vacana-itself-works-while-sitting abhang. Lamp-storehouse-vacana-itself-works register. Four claims:

1. दीपें-आदि-मध्य-अंत-दाखविला — हा-तों-आपणापें-यत्न-बरा. Lamp-shows-but-yatna-yours-claim. The dīpa (lamp) showed (me) ādi-madhya-anta (beginning-middle-end — the whole-temporal-span, or the whole spiritual-trajectory); but-this-itself is āpaṇāpē (your-own-side / your-own-effort); yatna (effort) — barā (well-done, good). The lamp may show, but it's your own well-applied effort that brought-the-light to where it could show. (Or: the lamp = guru/word; what is shown is the trajectory; but the yatna of seeking-and-walking is the bhakta's-own.)

2. दाशत्वे-धन्याचें-भांडार-दाविलें — परि-सार-नव्हे-एथुनियां. Dāsatva-shows-storehouse-but-not-essence-claim. Through dāsatva (servant-hood, the attitude-of-being-servant — typical of bhakti), the dhanyā's (master's, owner's) bhāṇḍāra (storehouse, treasury) was-shown; but the sāra (essence, the substance-of-Hari) is-not from-here (= is not obtainable just from being-shown-the-storehouse). Servant-shown-storehouse-but-essence-elsewhere. (Important Vārkarī point: just becoming a dāsa and being-shown the bhāṇḍāra of God's-power isn't the sāra — the sāra is bhāva-itself, not the inventory.)

3. उपायानें-सोस-नासलें — सत्तेने-सत्ता-बळ-अंगा-आलें. Upāya-destroys-sōsa-sattā-bala-comes-claim. By upāya (means / effort / spiritual-practice), all sōsa (longing-craving — restless-want) was nāsalā (destroyed); by sattā (the Sattā — the existence-as-presence-as-governance — the Hari-sattā), sattā-bala (the power-of-being-in-the-sattā) came-to-the-anga (the body, the very-self). Effort-destroys-craving; sattā gives sattā-bala. (The sattā — being-in-Hari's-rule — is what brings the bala (strength) into one's-very-anga.)

4. Tuka: दृष्टि-सकळांच्या-शिरीं — वचन-च-करी-बैसोनियां. Vacana-itself-works-while-sitting-claim. Tuka says: (My) dṛṣṭi (gaze) is on the śiras (heads) of all; the vacana (word, the mere-uttered-word) alone does (the work), while just baisōniyām (sitting). Sit-and-the-vacana-itself-does-the-work. (Mature-Tuka's claim: he doesn't have to do anything beyond utter — the vacana, by-itself, sitting-still, does the work.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the lamp-storehouse-and-vacana-itself-works register:

1. Lamp showed ādi-madhya-anta — but it's your own yatna, well-applied. Lamp-and-yatna.

2. Dāsatva shows the storehouse — but the essence isn't from-here. Storehouse-not-essence.

3. Upāya destroys sōsa; sattā-bala comes to the anga. Effort-and-sattā.

4. Gaze on all heads; vacana alone works while sitting. Vacana-itself-works.

For today: the dīpa may have shown the ādi-madhya-anta — but the well-applied yatna was yours; through dāsatva the bhāṇḍāra of the master may be shown — but the sāra doesn't come-from-the-storehouse; by upāya the sōsa (craving) is destroyed — but it is the sattā itself that brings sattā-bala into the anga; now: dṛṣṭi rests on all-heads; the vacana itself, sitting, does (the work).

This abhang is Tukaram's lamp-storehouse-and-vacana-itself-works-while-sitting register — one of the most-mature attained-bhakta statements. Compare 0824 shop-set-up-Tuka-shopkeeper-vāṇī-shows-by-price; same mature-shopkeeper-tone but here organized around lamp and vacana-while-sitting. The vacana ci karī baisōniyām (vacana itself works while-sitting) is the precise mature-rest-and-vacana-works claim*.

मराठी: ही ओवी lamp-storehouse-and-vacana-itself-works-while-sitting register नाव सांगते:

1. दीप-आदि-मध्य-अंत-दाखविला — पण-यत्न-तुझा. Lamp-and-yatna.

2. दासत्व-भांडार — पण-सार-इथून-नव्हे. Storehouse-not-essence.

3. उपाय-सोस-नासला; सत्ता-बळ-अंगा-आलं. Effort-and-sattā.

4. दृष्टि-सर्वांच्या-शिरीं; वचन-च-बैसोनियां-करी. Vacana-itself-works.

आज: Dīpa-नं ādi-madhya-anta दाखवलं असेल — पण well-applied yatna तुझा-च होता; Dāsatva-नं bhāṇḍāra दाखवलं असेल — पण sāra तिथून-येत-नाही; Upāya-नं sōsa नष्ट होतो — पण sattā-च-anga-त sattā-bala आणते; आता: dṛṣṭi सर्वांच्या-शिरीं; vacana-च बसून काम करते.

Tukaram च-lamp-storehouse-and-vacana-itself-works-while-sitting-register — Most-mature attained-bhakta statements पैकी एक. 0824 shop-set-up-Tuka-shopkeeper-vāṇī-shows-by-price compare; तीच mature-shopkeeper-tone पण इथे lamp आणि vacana-while-sitting च्या मार्गाने. Vacana ci karī baisōniyām precise mature-rest-and-vacana-works claim.

Where this applies

• Lamp-shows-but-yatna-yours.* Effort.
• Storehouse-not-essence.* Limit-of-dāsatva.
• Sattā-bala to anga. Power.
• Vacana itself.* Mature-rest.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2374
• Abhanga 2377 — English: Gentle, sweet bāla-rūpa — that form from Kāḷī-time.
• Abhanga 2387
• Abhanga 2402