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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 840 of 4582

Abhanga 840

A true meeting with someone who embodies goodness can satisfy a longing words can't describe, and make all your prior effort worthwhile.

When a fortunate journey happened; what shall be said? — and you have to recognize this register
When gain-by-gain doubled; jīva satisfied by darśana — and you accept this image
When by fortune the saint-meeting happened; the toil came to-fruit — and you receive this final celebration

The verse

बरवें देशाउर जालें । काय बोलें बोलावें ॥१॥ लाभें लाभ दुणावला । जीव धाला दरुषणें ॥ध्रु.॥ भाग्यें जाली संतभेटी । आवडी पोटीं होती ते ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे श्रम केला । अवघा आला फळासी ॥३॥

Literal translation

Baravēmdēśāura — happened. What — bōla — to-be-said. Lābhaduṇāvalā. Jīvadhālādaruṣaṇa. Bhāgyasanta-bhēṭi. Āvaḍīpōṭī — was — that. Tuka says: śrama — done — all — came — phaḷa.

मराठी: बरवें देशाउर (दूरचा-प्रवास) झालं — काय बोलें बोलावं?. लाभानं लाभ दुणावला — जीव दर्शनानं धाला (तृप्त). भाग्यें संत-भेटी झाली — आवडी पोटीं होती ती (पूर्ण झाली). Tuka म्हणे: श्रम केला — अवघा फळासी आला.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
बरवें देशाउर जालें "baravēmdēśāura — happened"
काय बोलें बोलावें "what — bōla — to-be-said"
लाभें लाभ दुणावला "lābha — by-lābhaduṇāvalā (doubled)"
जीव धाला दरुषणें "jīvadhālādaruṣaṇa"
भाग्यें जाली संतभेटी "bhāgya — happened — santa-bhēṭi"
आवडी पोटीं होती ते "āvaḍīpōṭī — was — that"
श्रम केला "śrama — done"
अवघा आला फळासी "all — came — phaḷa"

What it means

A fortunate-journey-what-shall-be-said-gain-by-gain-doubled-jīva-satisfied-by-daruṣaṇa-by-fortune-santa-bhēṭi-longing-in-belly-fulfilled-toil-came-to-fruit abhang. Saint-meeting-as-fortune register. Three claims:

  1. बरवें-देशाउर-जालं — काय-बोलावं — लाभानं-लाभ-दुणावला — जीव-धाला-दर्शनानं. Fortunate-journey-and-doubled-gain-claim. A fortunate (baravēm)dēśāura (journey-to-a-foreign-region — likely the journey to Pandharī or to a saint-residence)happened; what shall be said inbōla?(= words can't capture it); gain-by-gain (lābhē lābha) wasduṇāvalā (doubled);the jīva was dhālā (satiated, contented) by the daruṣaṇa (the darśana — the sight).Fortunate-journey; gain-doubled; jīva-satisfied-by-darśana.

  2. भाग्यें-संत-भेटी — आवडी-पोटीं-होती-ती. By-fortune-santa-bhēṭi-and-longing-fulfilled-claim. Bybhāgya (good-fortune, accumulated-puṇya), the santa-bhēṭi (saint-meeting, satsanga) happened;the āvaḍī that was pōṭī (in the belly — held-inside as longing) (became this — was-fulfilled).Saint-meeting-by-fortune; the-longing-in-the-belly-was-fulfilled. (Theāvaḍī pōṭīimage: the longing was heldinside the belly(in the deep-place, not just at the surface); thesanta-bhēṭifulfilled exactlythat longing.)

  3. Tuka: श्रम-केला — अवघा-फळासी-आला. Toil-came-to-fruit-claim. Tuka says: theśrama that was doneall came to-phaḷa (fruit).All-the-toil-came-to-fruit. (Closing-celebration: every-bit of theśrama (the long effort of bhakti, the journey, the wait) has-borne-fruit.)

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For someone today

Something good happened on this journey, so good that words can't fully capture it. Every gain multiplied into more gain, and simply seeing the saint left the soul fully satisfied. The meeting itself was a stroke of fortune, and it answered a longing that had been quietly held inside for a long time. Tukaram closes by saying that every bit of effort, every mile traveled, every day of waiting, has finally borne fruit.

मराठी: या प्रवासात असं काहीतरी चांगलं घडलं की ते शब्दांत पूर्णपणे मांडताच येत नाही. प्रत्येक लाभ आणखी लाभात दुणावला, आणि नुसतं दर्शन घेतल्यानेच जीव तृप्त झाला. ही भेट स्वतःच एक भाग्ययोग होती, आणि आतल्या आत बाळगलेली आस तिनं पुरी केली. तुकाराम शेवटी म्हणतात, केलेला सगळा परिश्रम, चाललेली प्रत्येक वाट, वाट पाहिलेला प्रत्येक दिवस, शेवटी फळाला आला.

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