Abhanga 825

English: When-clings — mukha — stana — ghālī — pānhā — māulī.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A child-mouth-clings-mother-makes-pānhā-flow-mutual-affection-fondness-anga-meets-anga-prema-rang-grows-jaḍa-bhāra-on-mother's-head abhang. Jananī-stana-pānhā-mother-bears-all register. Three claims:

1. मुख-स्तनां-लागल्यावर — माउली-पान्हा-घाली. Child-clings-mother-flows-pānhā-claim. When the (child's) mukha clings to the stana; the māulī (mother) lets-down-the-pānhā (the milk-let-down — the involuntary-flow of milk when the baby suckles). Child-clings-and-mother-automatically-flows. (Universally-recognized image: the mere clinging-to-the-breast triggers the milk-let-down; this is the pānhā — the spontaneous, gracious flowing-from-the-mother in response to the child's clinging-need.)

2. उभयतां-आवडी-लाडें — कोडें-कोड-पुरतसे — अंग-अंग-मेळवितां — प्रेमें-रंग-वाढतो. Mutual-affection-and-anga-meeting-prema-rang-grows-claim. In ubhayatām (in-both) — āvaḍī (affection) and lāḍa (fondness, indulgence) — kōḍē (coyly, with-child-like-coyness) the kōḍa (loving-mischief, sweet-puzzle) is puratasē (fulfilled, satisfied); when anga meets *anga (body-meets-body, child's-body-on-mother's-body) — with prēma, the ranga (color, hue, intensity-of-affection) increases. Both have affection; both find the coy-mischief sweet; anga-on-anga the prema-rang grows. (The mother is not a one-way-giver; she also enjoys it — ubhayatām (in-both) — the prema-ranga* grows because the relationship is mutual.)

3. Tuka: जड-भारी-कितीही — अवघें-शिरीं-जननीचे. All-on-mother's-head-claim. Tuka says: however jaḍa-bhārī (heavy-and-hard) (the load may be); (it is) all on the śiras (head — the very-self) of the jananī (mother). Mother-bears-all-the-jaḍa-bhāra. (Closing application: the bhakta is the child; whatever-heavy-burden the child has, it is all-on-the-mother's-head — i.e., on the head of Hari-jananī / Pāṇḍuranga-māulī.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the jananī-stana-pānhā-mother-bears-all register:

1. Child clings to breast; mother flows pānhā. Pānhā-flow.

2. Both have affection; coy-mischief fulfills both; anga meets anga; prema-rang grows. Mutual-affection.

3. However heavy — all is on the mother's head. Mother-bears-all.

For today: just as when the child's mukha clings to the stana, the māulī lets-down-the-*pānhā — spontaneously, graciously; the āvaḍī and lāḍa are mutual; the kōḍē-kōḍa is puratasē; when anga meets *anga — with prēma, the ranga (color, intensity) grows; however jaḍa-bhārī (heavy-and-hard) — all is on the jananī's śiras*.

This abhang is Tukaram's jananī-stana-pānhā-and-mother-bears-all register — one of the most-tender mother-and-child-bhakti images in the whole-Gatha. Compare 0742 jananī-image-mother-of-images-cluster (Tuka's mudra); same jananī-image but here organized around stana-pānhā and anga-meets-anga prema-rang grows. The avaghē śirīm jananīcē (all on the jananī's head) is the precise mother-bears-all closing*.

मराठी: ही ओवी jananī-stana-pānhā-mother-bears-all register नाव सांगते:

1. मुख-स्तनां; माउली-पान्हा. Pānhā-flow.

2. उभयतां-आवडी-लाडें; अंग-अंग-प्रेम-रंग. Mutual-affection.

3. जड-भारी; जननीच्या-शिरीं. Mother-bears-all.

आज: जसं मुलाचं-mukha स्तनां-ला-लागल्यावर — māulī spontaneously pānhā घालते; Āvaḍī आणि lāḍa दोघांत; kōḍē-kōḍa puratasē; Anga-वर-anga मिळला तर — prēma-नं ranga वाढतो; कितीही jaḍa-bhārī — सगळं jananī-च्या-śiras-वर.

Tukaram च-jananī-stana-pānhā-and-mother-bears-all-register — Most-tender mother-and-child-bhakti images-in-the-whole-Gatha पैकी एक. 0742 jananī-image-mother-of-images-cluster (Tuka mudra) compare; तीच jananī-image पण इथे stana-pānhā आणि anga-meets-anga prema-rang grows च्या मार्गाने. Avaghē śirīm jananīcē precise mother-bears-all closing.

Where this applies

• Child clings → mother flows.* Pānhā.
• Mutual affection.* Two-sided.
• Anga meets *anga.* Closeness.
• Mother-bears-all.* Surrender.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2425
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• Abhanga 2484
• Abhanga 2540 — English: What greatness will I, low one, describe — you become compassionate, kṛpā-ocean.