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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 892 of 4582

Abhanga 892

Move quickly and claim your share now, and be willing to bear a little jolt, because a coward who cannot take one push will never reach real joy.

When take share quickly; falling-behind stays far; others take the sāra — and you have to recognize this register
When many deluded don't know the time; bear bhāra on head — and you accept this image
When run and take; what's in the lap is yours — and you allow this image

The verse

वांटा घेई लवकरि । मागें अंतरसी दुरी । केली भरोवरी । सार नेती आणीक ॥१॥ ऐसीं भांमावलीं किती । काय जाणों नेणों किती । समय नेणती । माथां भार वाहोनि ॥ध्रु.॥ नाहीं सारिलें तोंवरी । धांव घेई वेग करीं । घेतलें पदरीं । फावलें तें आपुलें ॥२॥ फट लंडी म्हणे तुका । एक न साहावे धका । तरि च या सुखा । मग कैसा पावसी ॥३॥

Literal translation

Vāṇṭa — take — quickly. Antarasī durī. Bharōvarī. Sāra. Bhāmāvalī. Samaya — māthā-bhāra. Run — vēga. Padarī — phāvalē. Tuka says: phaṭa-laṇḍī. Dhakā — sukha — pāvasī.

मराठी: वांटा घे लवकरि — मागें राहलासि तर दुरीच राहाशील — भरोवरी (गर्दी) झाली — सार-इतर लोक नेत आहेत. असे भांमावलेले (फसवलेले) किती — काय जाणों, नेणों किती — समय न जाणती — माथ्यावर भार वाहोनि. सारिलेलें (संपलेलें) नाहीं तोंवरी — धांव, वेग कर — पदरीं घेतलेलें — फावलेलं, तें आपुलें. Tuka म्हणे: फट, लंडी (भित्री / डरपोक) — एक धक्का साहावत नाहीं — तरि ह्या सुखाला कैसा पावसी मग?.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
वांटा घेई लवकरि "vāṇṭa — take — quickly"
मागें अंतरसी दुरी "behind — antarasī durī"
केली भरोवरी "bharōvarī"
सार नेती आणीक "sāra — others-take"
ऐसीं भांमावलीं किती "bhāmāvalī — how-many"
काय जाणों नेणों किती "what-to-know — nēṇōm"
समय नेणती माथां भार वाहोनि "samaya — māthā-bhāra"
नाहीं सारिलें तोंवरी "not — sārilē"
धांव घेई वेग करीं "dhāva — vēga"
घेतलें पदरीं फावलें तें आपुलें "padarī — phāvalē"
फट लंडी म्हणे तुका "phaṭa — laṇḍī — Tuka"
एक न साहावे धका "one — dhakā — can't-bear"
तरि च या सुखा मग कैसा पावसी "sukha — pāvasī"

What it means

A take-share-quick-falling-behind-stay-far-many-deluded-don't-know-time-bear-bhāra-on-head-run-and-take-what's-taken-is-yours-coward-can't-bear-shock-how-reach-sukha abhang. Run-take-coward-rebuke register. Four claims:

  1. वांटा-घेई-लवकरि — दुरीं-राहूं-नका — भरोवरी — सार-इतर-नेती. Take-share-quick-claim. Take yourvāṇṭaquickly!; falling-behind, you'll staydurī; thebharōvarī(the press / rush at the distribution) has happened; others are taking thesāra. Hurry-or-others-will-take-the-essence. (Image of a public-distribution, perhaps free-anna or free-prasāda — first-come-first-served.)

  2. भांमावलें-किती — समय-न-नेणे — माथ्यावर-भार-वाहोनि. Many-deluded-don't-know-time-claim. So-manybhāmāvalī(deluded by samsāra); don't know thesamaya (the right-time);bearing the māthā-bhāra (the head-burden of samsāra).Many-bewildered-don't-know-it's-time.

  3. सारिलें-नाहीं-तोंवरी — धांव-वेग — पदरीं-फावलें-आपुलें. Run-and-take-claim. Until it's notsārilē (exhausted), run! make vēga; what's taken in thepadarī, that's phāvalē, that's yours.Hurry-while-stocks-last; what-you-grab-is-yours.

  4. Tuka: फट-लंडी — एक-धका-न-साहावे — सुखा-कैसा-पावसी. Coward-can't-bear-one-shock-how-reach-sukha-claim. Tuka says: get-out,laṇḍī!;one dhakā (shock, push) you can't bear;then how will you reach this sukha?If-you-can't-bear-one-push-no-sukha-for-you. (The bracing closing-rebuke: thissukha requires bearing-some-shocks-too.)

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For someone today

Tukaram pictures a crowded distribution, the kind where free food or grace is being given out and everyone is pressing forward, and he tells you to take your share quickly, because if you hang back you will simply stay far away while others carry off the best of it. So many people are deluded by ordinary life, he says, carrying its burden on their heads without even realizing this is the moment to act. His advice is urgent and physical: run, move fast, and whatever you manage to gather into the fold of your cloth is truly yours. Then he turns and rebukes the timid one directly, calling him a coward, because if you cannot bear even one push or jolt in the crowd, you will never reach the joy on the other side of it.

मराठी: तुकाराम एका गर्दीच्या वाटपाचं चित्र उभं करतात, जिथे मोफत अन्न किंवा कृपा वाटली जात आहे आणि सगळे पुढे रेटत आहेत, आणि ते सांगतात की तुझा वांटा लवकर घे, कारण मागे राहिलास तर तूच दूर राहशील आणि इतर लोक सार घेऊन जातील. इतके लोक संसाराने भांबावलेले आहेत, ते म्हणतात, डोक्यावर भार वाहत आहेत, हीच वेळ आहे हे त्यांना कळतही नाही. त्यांचा सल्ला घाईचा आणि थेट आहे: धाव, वेग कर, आणि जे काही तू आपल्या पदरात घेतलंस तेच खरंखुरं तुझं आहे. मग ते थेट भित्र्याला फटकारतात, त्याला लंडी म्हणतात, कारण गर्दीतला एक धक्काही सहन करता येत नसेल, तर त्या पलीकडचं सुख तुला कधीच मिळणार नाही.

Where this applies

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