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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 873 of 4582

Abhanga 873

The saints are sustained by love itself, day and night, treating compassion as their stance and the present moment of practice as their true wealth.

When these are saints' pañca-bhūtas; jīvana-and-rice is of prema — and you have to recognize this register
When the kaḷavaḷā the saints hold firmly as their kaivāḍa — and you accept this image
When this very-time, sādhanā itself is the sampatti — and you allow this image

The verse

हीं च त्यांचीं पंचभूतें । जीवन भातें प्रेमाचें ॥१॥ कळवळा धरिला संतीं । ते निगुती कैवाड ॥ध्रु.॥ हा च काळ वर्तमान । साधन ही संपत्ती ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे दिवसरातीं । हें चि खाती अन्न ते ॥३॥

Literal translation

These — their — pañca-bhūta. Jīvana-bhātaprēma. Kaḷavaḷādharilāsantanigutikaivāḍa. Kāḷavartamānasādhana-sampatti. Tuka says: divasa-rātīkhātīanna.

मराठी: हीं च त्यांचीं पंच-भूतें — जीवन-भात (अन्न) प्रेमाचं. कळवळा संतीं धरिला — ते निगुती (अगदीच-स्पष्ट) कैवाड (पक्ष). हाच काळ वर्तमान — साधनच संपत्ती. Tuka म्हणे: दिवस-रातीं — हें-च अन्न ते खाती.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
हीं च त्यांचीं पंचभूतें "these — their — pañca-bhūta"
जीवन भातें प्रेमाचें "jīvanabhātaprēma"
कळवळा धरिला संतीं "kaḷavaḷādharilāsanta"
ते निगुती कैवाड "nigutikaivāḍa"
हा च काळ वर्तमान "this — kāḷavartamāna"
साधन ही संपत्ती "sādhanasampatti"
दिवसरातीं "divasa-rātī"
हें चि खाती अन्न ते "this — khātīanna"

What it means

A saints'-pañca-bhūtas-of-prema-kaḷavaḷā-held-firmly-as-kaivāḍa-this-very-time-sādhanā-itself-sampatti-day-and-night-eat-this-as-anna abhang. Saints-eat-prema-as-anna register. Three claims:

  1. त्यांचीं-पंच-भूतें — जीवन-भात-प्रेम — कळवळा-संतीं-निगुती-कैवाड. Saints'-pañca-bhūtas-of-prema-and-kaḷavaḷā-as-kaivāḍa-claim. These (very-things) are theirpañca-bhūta; (their)jīvana(life) andbhāta(rice) is ofprēma; thekaḷavaḷā (compassionate-anguish — the saints' caring-grief for the world) — the santas have dharilā (held-firm);that niguti (with-perfect-clarity, very-firmly) is their kaivāḍa (stand, devotional-position).Saints'-elements-and-rice-are-prema; kaḷavaḷā-is-their-firm-stand. (The image: replace the ordinarypañca-bhūtaof the body withprema; theannaisprema; thekaivāḍaiskaḷavaḷā.)

  2. हाच-काळ-वर्तमान — साधन-संपत्ती. This-time-sādhana-is-sampatti-claim. This very-kāḷa(the present-moment); sādhanā itself is the sampatti. Now-is-the-time; sādhanā-itself-is-wealth.

  3. Tuka: दिवस-रातीं — हें-अन्न-खाती. They-eat-this-as-anna-claim. Tuka says: day-and-night — theykhātījust-this asanna. Day-and-night-they-eat-prema-as-anna. (Closing-image: prema replaces ordinary food; the saints eat prema-as-their-anna.)

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For someone today

For the saints, love itself has become their body and their nourishment, and even their compassionate concern for the suffering of others is simply how they stand in the world. They treat the present moment as their true wealth, with spiritual practice itself being enough. Tukaram says they live on love the way the rest of us live on food, feeding on it day and night.

मराठी: संतांसाठी प्रेम हेच त्यांचे शरीर आणि त्यांचे अन्न बनून जाते, इतरांच्या दुःखाबद्दल त्यांना वाटणारी कळकळसुद्धा त्यांच्या जगण्याचेच रूप आहे. सध्याचा हा क्षणच ते आपली खरी संपत्ती मानतात, आणि साधना हीच पुरेशी असते. तुकाराम म्हणतात, जसे आपण अन्न खाऊन जगतो, तसे ते दिवसरात्री प्रेमावरच जगतात.

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