Abhanga 843
Meeting real goodness in another person can dispel your worry and reveal a treasure that was inside you all along, waiting for the right openness of heart.
The verse
उजळलें भाग्य आतां । अवघी चिंता वारली ॥१॥ संतदर्शनें हा लाभ । पद्मनाभ जोडला ॥ध्रु.॥ संपुष्ट हा हृदयपेटी । करूनि पोटीं सांटवूं ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे होता ठेवा । तो या भावा सांपडला ॥३॥
Literal translation
Ujaḷalē — bhāgya — now. All — cintā — vāralī. Santa-darśana — this — lābha — Padma-nābha — jōḍalā. Sampuṣṭa — hṛdaya-pēṭī — making — pōṭī — sāmṭavūm. Tuka says: was — ṭhēvā — that — by-this-bhāva — sāmpaḍalā.
मराठी: भाग्य उजळलं आतां — सगळी चिंता वारली. संत-दर्शनानं हा लाभ — पद्म-नाभ जोडला. हा संपुष्ट हृदय-पेटी — करूनि पोटीं सांटवूं. Tuka म्हणे: जो ठेवा होता — तो ह्या भावानं सांपडला.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| उजळलें भाग्य आतां | "ujaḷalē — bhāgya — now" |
| अवघी चिंता वारली | "all — cintā — vāralī" |
| संतदर्शनें हा लाभ | "santa-darśana — this — lābha" |
| पद्मनाभ जोडला | "Padma-nābha — jōḍalā" |
| संपुष्ट हा हृदयपेटी | "sampuṣṭa — hṛdaya-pēṭī" |
| करूनि पोटीं सांटवूं | "making — pōṭī — sāmṭavūm" |
| होता ठेवा | "was — ṭhēvā" |
| तो या भावा सांपडला | "that — by-this-bhāva — sāmpaḍalā" |
What it means
A fortune-shines-anxiety-dispelled-saint-darśana-gathers-Padma-nābha-sampuṣṭa-heart-box-stock-up-in-belly-old-treasure-by-this-bhāva-found abhang. Saint-darśana-gathers-Padma-nābha register. Three claims:
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उजळलें-भाग्य — चिंता-वारली — संत-दर्शनें-Padma-नाभ-जोडला. Fortune-shines-and-saint-darśana-gathers-Padma-nābha-claim. Fortune (bhāgya) hasujaḷalē (shone, become-radiant — like a lit-lamp) now;all cintā (anxiety) is vāralī (dispelled — like wind that drives-away);by the santa-darśana, this lābha — Padma-nābha (Viṣṇu — the one with the lotus-from-the-navel — i.e., Hari) has been jōḍalā (gathered, joined-to-me).Fortune-shines-anxiety-gone; saint-darśana = Padma-nābha-gathered. (Thesanta-darśana-equals-Padma-nābha-darśanaclaim: meeting the saintis meeting Hari.)
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संपुष्ट-हृदय-पेटी — पोटीं-सांटवूं. Sampuṣṭa-heart-box-stock-up-in-belly-claim. (Let) thissampuṣṭa (the deposit / the sampuṣṭa-content) be the hṛdaya-pēṭī (the heart-box);making-(it so), let-us sāmṭavūm (stock-up, put-on-shelf, store) in the pōṭī (belly).Sampuṣṭa-make-the-heart-a-box-stock-it-in-belly. (The merchant-image: Padma-nābha-found is thesampuṣṭa(the deposit); make thehṛdayaapēṭī(a box, a strongbox) andsāmṭavūm(stock-up) in thepōṭī (the inner-belly, the deep-storehouse).)
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Tuka: होता-ठेवा — ह्या-भावानं-सांपडला. Old-treasure-by-this-bhāva-found-claim. Tuka says: therewasaṭhēvā (treasure, deposit-of-old — already-existing, just-not-found);that, by thisbhāva (this devotional-attitude / this saint-darśana-bhāva), was-sāmpaḍalā (found, encountered).Old-treasure-already-existing-was-found-by-this-bhāva. (The closing-vedānta-claim: theṭhēvāofPadma-nābhawas always-already-there; what changed is thebhāva— this saint-darśana-bhāva thatfound it.)
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For someone today
Tukaram describes a moment when his luck turns bright and every worry simply lifts away. Meeting the saint, he says, is the same as meeting the divine itself, that meeting is the real gain. He wants to turn his heart into a strongbox and keep this treasure carefully stored deep inside, not let it slip away. The closing insight is tender: the treasure was there all along, just waiting, what changed was the attitude, the openness of heart, that finally let him find it.
मराठी: तुकाराम एका अशा क्षणाचं वर्णन करतात जेव्हा त्यांचं नशीब उजळतं आणि सगळी चिंता एकदम दूर होते. संताचं दर्शन घेणं म्हणजेच परमेश्वराचं दर्शन घेण्यासारखं आहे, असं ते म्हणतात, तीच खरी कमाई आहे. ते आपलं हृदय एखाद्या पेटीसारखं बनवून हा ठेवा आत जपून ठेवू इच्छितात, तो निसटू देत नाहीत. आणि शेवटची जाणीव हळुवार आहे, हा ठेवा नेहमीच तिथे होता, फक्त वाट पाहत होता, बदललं ते फक्त मन, जे मोकळेपण मिळाल्यामुळे शेवटी तो सापडला.
Where this applies
- Fortune-shines. Lifting.
- Padma-nābha-gathered. Saint-darśana.
- Old-treasure-found. Already-there.