संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 849 of 4582

Abhanga 849

Longing for the divine can grow so intense that the heart rushes ahead while the body sits behind, stunned and frozen like a lifeless shell.

When the longing for darśana — udāsa not borne; the jīva has come to the feet, here with the corpse-body — and you have to recognize this register

When nothing recalled, sat-in-place, doesn't get-up — and you accept this image

When the jīva still there, Tuka stunned in-place — and you receive this final stupefaction image

The verse

दर्शनाची आस । आतां ना साहे उदास ॥१॥ जीव आला पायांपाशीं । येथें असें कलिवरेंसीं ॥ध्रु.॥ कांहीं च नाठवे । ठायीं बैसलें नुठवे ॥२॥ जीव असतां पाहीं । तुका ठकावला ठायीं ॥३॥

Literal translation

Darśana — āsa. Now — not — sāhē — udāsa. Jīva — come — pāyāmpāśīm. Here — kalivara. Nothing — nāṭhavē. Ṭhāya — sat — doesn't-get-up. Tuka says: jīva — still — Tuka — ṭhakāvalā — ṭhāyī.

मराठी: दर्शनाची आस — आतां उदास साहे (सहन-होत) नाहीं. जीव पायांपाशीं आला — येथे (हें) कलिवरेंसीं (मृत-शरीरासकट). कांहीं च नाठवे — ठायीं बैसलं, नुठवे (उठत-नाहीं). पहा, जीव असतांहीं — Tuka ठायीं ठकावला.

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
दर्शनाची आस	"darśana — āsa"
आतां ना साहे उदास	"now — not — sāhē — udāsa"
जीव आला पायांपाशीं	"jīva — come — pāyāmpāśīm"
येथें असें कलिवरेंसीं	"here — asē — kalivara"
कांहीं च नाठवे	"nothing — nāṭhavē"
ठायीं बैसलें नुठवे	"ṭhāya — sat — doesn't-get-up"
जीव असतां पाहीं	"jīva — still-being — look"
तुका ठकावला ठायीं	"Tuka — ṭhakāvalā — ṭhāyī"

What it means

A longing-for-darśana-despondence-not-borne-jīva-come-to-feet-side-here-with-corpse-body-nothing-recalled-sat-doesn't-get-up-Tuka-stunned-in-place-with-jīva-still-there abhang. Viraha-stupefaction register. Three claims:

दर्शनाची-आस — उदास-साहे-नाहीं — जीव-पायांपाशीं — कलिवरेंसीं. Jīva-at-feet-and-corpse-body-here-claim. Theāsafordarśana; now, theudāsa(despondent-state, theudāsaof viraha) is notsāhē (borne);the jīva has come to the pāyām-pāśīm (right-near-the-feet);here (it) is — with the kalivara (the body-as-corpse).Jīva-at-feet; corpse-body-here. (Vivid bilocation: thejīvahas flown-to-the-feet, while thekalivara(corpse-body) remains-here. The body without-jīva is described ascorpse — the viraha is so-extreme that the body-feels-like-a-corpse.)
कांहीं-नाठवे — ठायीं-बैसलं-नुठवे. Nothing-recalled-sat-doesn't-get-up-claim. Nothing isnāṭhavē (recalled, remembered);sat-in-place (ṭhāyī baisalē), it-nuṭhavē (doesn't-get-up).Sat-frozen-nothing-recalled. (Stupefaction: the body is in viraha-stupor — frozen-in-place, recalling-nothing.)
Tuka: जीव-असतांहीं — ठकावला-ठायीं. Tuka-stunned-in-place-with-jīva-still-there-claim. Look — even though thejīva is still-there; Tuka wasṭhakāvalā (stunned, frozen-still, fooled) in ṭhāyī (place).Jīva-still-there-yet-stunned-in-place. (Closing-paradox: thejīvais still in the body — yet Tuka isṭhakāvalā(frozen-still, like-a-fool, like-a-stone) — the body isbhōktṛhīna even with-jīva-present. The viraha-stupor is total.)

[T]

For someone today

This abhang names the pattern of stupor caused by longing:

The longing for a vision of God; that despondence can no longer be borne; my soul has flown to Your feet, while what remains here is only a lifeless body. Soul and body pulled apart.
Nothing is remembered; sitting frozen in place, unable to rise. A stupor.
Even with the soul still present, Tuka sat stunned in place. Stunned where he sat.

For today: the longing for a vision of God, and the despondence of separation, can no longer be borne; the soul has flown ahead to God's feet, while what remains here is only a lifeless shell of a body; nothing is remembered, sitting frozen in place, unable to rise; even with the soul still present within, Tuka sat stunned where he was.

This abhang is one of the most extreme statements in the corpus of the stupor caused by separation from God — the soul flown ahead to God's feet while the body remains behind, frozen. Compare 0846, where the same state of separation appears as a tender, running plea to a mother — the same anguish of separation, but here it is worked out through this image of the soul and body pulled apart, and the devotee left stunned in place. "Tuka sat stunned in place" is the precise close of this state of stupor brought on by longing.

मराठी: ही ओवी विरहामुळे आलेल्या स्तब्धतेचा नमुना सांगते:

दर्शनाची आस, ती विरहाची उदासी आतां सहन होत नाही; माझा जीव तुझ्या चरणांपाशी उडून गेला आहे, इथे उरले आहे फक्त निष्प्राण कलेवर. जीव आणि शरीर वेगळे झालेले.
काहीच आठवत नाही; एका जागी बसून राहिलेले, उठवत नाही. एक स्तब्धता.
जीव आतमध्ये असूनही तुका जागच्या जागी स्तब्ध बसून राहिला. जिथे बसला तिथेच स्तब्ध.

आजसाठी: दर्शनाची आस आणि विरहाची उदासी आतां सहन होत नाही; जीव पुढे धावून तुझ्या चरणांपाशी पोहोचला आहे, इथे उरले आहे फक्त निष्प्राण कलेवर; काहीच आठवत नाही, एका जागी बसून राहिलेले, उठता येत नाही; आत जीव असूनही तुका जागच्या जागी स्तब्ध बसून राहिला.

ही ओवी देवापासून विरहामुळे आलेल्या स्तब्धतेच्या गाथेतील सर्वात तीव्र विधानांपैकी एक आहे — जीव पुढे धावून चरणांपाशी पोहोचलेला आणि शरीर मागे गोठलेले. ओवी क्र. ०८४६ शी तुलना करता येईल — तिथेही हीच विरहाची अवस्था आहे, आईकडे धावत जाणाऱ्या हळुवार विनवणीच्या रूपात — तीच विरहाची वेदना, पण इथे ती जीव आणि शरीर वेगळे होण्याच्या प्रतिमेतून आणि भक्त जागच्या जागी स्तब्ध राहण्यातून मांडली आहे. "तुका जागच्या जागी स्तब्ध बसून राहिला" हाच या विरह-स्तब्धतेचा नेमका शेवट आहे.

Where this applies

Bilocation. Jīva-at-feet, body-here.
Stupor. Frozen.
Stunned-in-place. Viraha.