Abhanga 831
Trust that the same complete care a loving father gives his child, or a mother gives a hungry infant, already surrounds you, so you don't need a separate anxious plan for how your needs will be met.
The verse
लेकरा आईतें पित्याची जतन । दावी निजधन सर्व जोडी ॥१॥ त्यापरि आमचा जालासे सांभाळ । देखिला चि काळ नाहीं आड ॥ध्रु.॥ भुकेचे संनिध वसे स्तनपान । उपायाची भिन्न चिंता नाहीं ॥२॥ आळवूनि तुका उभा पैलथडी । घातली या उडी पांडुरंगें ॥३॥
Literal translation
Child — fully — pitā's — jatana. Shows — nij-dhana — all — jōḍī. In-that-way — our — has-happened — sāmbhāḷa — kāḷa — even — not — āḍa. Bhukē — samnidha — lives — stana-pāna — upāya — bhinna — cintā — not. Tuka — calling — standing — paila-thaḍī — Pāṇḍuranga — ghātalī — uḍī.
मराठी: लेकराचं आईतें पित्याची जतन — आपलं निज-धन सगळं जोडून दाखवतो. त्यापरि आमचा सांभाळ झालाय — काळ-सुद्धा आड-म्हणून-दिसला नाहीं. भुकेच्या संनिध स्तन-पान वसतं — उपायाची भिन्न चिंता नाहीं. Tuka आळवून, उभा पैल-थडी — Pāṇḍuranगानं उडी घातली.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| लेकरा आईतें पित्याची जतन | "child — fully — pitā's — jatana (care)" |
| दावी निजधन सर्व जोडी | "shows — nij-dhana — all — jōḍī (gathered)" |
| त्यापरि आमचा जालासे सांभाळ | "in-that-way — our — has-happened — sāmbhāḷa" |
| देखिला चि काळ नाहीं आड | "seen — even — kāḷa — not — āḍa (obstacle)" |
| भुकेचे संनिध वसे स्तनपान | "bhukē — samnidha — lives — stana-pāna" |
| उपायाची भिन्न चिंता नाहीं | "upāya's — separate — cintā — not" |
| आळवूनि तुका उभा पैलथडी | "calling — Tuka — standing — paila-thaḍī" |
| घातली या उडी पांडुरंगें | "(was-)thrown — uḍī — by-Pāṇḍuranga" |
What it means
A father-takes-care-of-child-shows-own-wealth-our-protection-kāḷa-not-obstacle-breast-feeding-near-hunger-no-anxiety-about-means-Tuka-called-from-far-shore-Pāṇḍuranga-jumped abhang. Father-protection-and-Pāṇḍuranga-jumped register. Three claims:
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लेकरा-आईतें-पित्याची-जतन — निज-धन-सर्व-जोडी-दाखवी — त्यापरि-आमचा-सांभाळ — काळ-आड-नाहीं. Father-cares-and-our-protection-claim. Thepitā(father) takes-care of thelēkarā(child)āītēm (fully, with full-attention);shows (the child) his nij-dhana (own-wealth) — jōḍī (all-gathered, all-pooled);in-that-way, our sāmbhāḷa has-happened;even kāḷa (time / death) was not seen as an āḍa (obstacle / barrier in-the-way).Father-shows-treasure; protection complete; even kāḷa not-an-obstacle. (The father-image is thelēkarā-protector who shows the entire-treasury.)
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भुकेचे-संनिध-स्तन-पान-वसे — उपायाची-भिन्न-चिंता-नाहीं. Breast-feeding-near-hunger-no-anxiety-of-means-claim. Thestana-pāna(breast-feeding) livessamnidha (close-to) the bhukē (hunger);there is no bhinna (separate) cintā (anxiety) about the upāya (means).The breast lives next to the hunger — no separate anxiety about how to satisfy. (Vivid image: the infant's hunger and the breast-of-the-mother areadjacent, not separated; the bhakta's-need and Hari's-supply are similarly-adjacent. No anxiety of upāya.)
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Tuka: आळवूनि-उभा-पैल-थडी — घातली-उडी-Pāṇḍuranगानं. Pāṇḍuranga-jumped-claim. Tuka,āḷavūni (calling-out-pleadingly), ubhā (standing) on the paila-thaḍī (far-shore — the other-side, the side-of-this-samsāra)—Pāṇḍurangaghātalī uḍī (jumped-down — the ghālaṇē of the uḍī).Tuka-called-from-far-shore-Pāṇḍuranga-jumped. (The closing-image: Tuka stood on thepaila-thaḍī(the samsāra-bank) calling, and Pāṇḍurangajumped— across the river of samsāra — to-rescue. Theuḍī image: a leap.)
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For someone today
A good father does not hide his wealth from his child, he shows it and shares it freely, taking care of every need. Tukaram says our relationship with the divine works exactly this way, so completely cared for that even death has never truly stood as an obstacle. A hungry infant does not have to invent a plan to be fed, because the breast is right there. In the same way, you do not need a separate anxious plan for how a need will be met when you trust that support is already close at hand. And when Tukaram called out in real need, standing on the far shore, Pandurang leapt across to reach him.
मराठी: चांगला बाप आपल्या मुलापासून आपली संपत्ती लपवत नाही, तो ती दाखवतो आणि मुलासाठी सगळं उघड करतो, प्रत्येक गरज पुरवतो. तुकाराम म्हणतात, आपली आणि परमेश्वराची नाती अगदी अशीच आहे, इतकी पूर्ण काळजी घेतली गेली आहे की मृत्यूसुद्धा कधी खरा अडथळा वाटला नाही. भुकेल्या बाळाला अन्न मिळवण्यासाठी वेगळी योजना करावी लागत नाही, कारण आईचा स्तन जवळच असतो. त्याचप्रमाणे, गरज पूर्ण होण्यासाठी वेगळी चिंता करण्याची गरज नाही, जेव्हा तुम्हाला विश्वास असतो की मदत आधीच जवळ आहे. आणि जेव्हा तुकारामांनी खऱ्या गरजेच्या क्षणी पैलतीरावर उभे राहून हाक मारली, तेव्हा पांडुरंगांनी लगेच उडी घेतली आणि त्यांच्यापर्यंत पोहोचले.
Where this applies
- Father-treasure. Care.
- Breast-near-hunger. Adjacent.
- Pāṇḍuranga-jumped. Rescue.