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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 907 of 4582

Abhanga 907

This chance to turn toward the divine may never come again and is not yours to summon at will, so act now, because your present actions, unlike your fixed past, still shape what comes next.

When this meeting may not come again; no independent authority — and you have to recognize this register
When take what's given; sing the nāma with love — and you accept this image
When samcita-prārabdha is deeply-set; kriyamāṇa runs ahead — and you allow this image

The verse

ऐसे पुढती मिळतां आतां । नाहीं सत्ता स्वतंत्र ॥१॥ म्हणउनि फावलें तें घ्यावें । नाम गावें आवडी ॥ध्रु.॥ संचित प्रारब्ध गाढें । धांवे पुढें क्रियमाण ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे घुबडा ऐसें । जन्म सरिसे शुकराचें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Aisēmiḷatāmātāmsattā svatantra — none. Phāvalēghyāvēnāmaāvaḍī. Samcita-prārabdhagāḍhēkriyamāṇa — runs. Tuka says: ghubaḍāśukarasarisē.

मराठी: ऐसें पुढती मिळेल असं नाहीं — आतां स्वतंत्र-सत्ता नाहीं. म्हणउनि फावलं ते घ्यावे — नाम आवडीनं गावें. संचित-प्रारब्ध गाढं — क्रियमाण पुढें धांवे. Tuka म्हणे: घुबडा-सारखं — जन्म-सरिसें शुकराचें.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
ऐसे पुढती मिळतां आतां "aisēmiḷatāmātām"
नाहीं सत्ता स्वतंत्र "sattā svatantra — none"
म्हणउनि फावलें तें घ्यावें "phāvalēghyāvē"
नाम गावें आवडी "nāmaāvaḍī"
संचित प्रारब्ध गाढें "samcita-prārabdhagāḍhē"
धांवे पुढें क्रियमाण "kriyamāṇa — runs"
घुबडा ऐसें "ghubaḍā — like"
जन्म सरिसे शुकराचें "janmasarisēśukara"

What it means

A this-meeting-may-not-come-again-no-independent-authority-take-what's-given-sing-nāma-samcita-prārabdha-deeply-set-kriyamāṇa-runs-ahead-otherwise-owl-or-pig-rebirth abhang. Urgent-now-or-degraded-rebirth register. Three claims:

  1. ऐसें-पुढती-मिळतां-नाहीं — सत्ता-स्वतंत्र-नाहीं — फावलें-घ्यावें — नाम-आवडी. Take-what's-given-claim. Such (a meeting) ahead —miḷatām, no svatantra-sattā; takephāvalē; singnāmawithāvaḍī. Take-this-now-no-second-chance.

  2. संचित-प्रारब्ध-गाढं — क्रियमाण-पुढें-धांवे. Three-karmas-claim. Samcita-prārabdha is gāḍhē; kriyamāṇa runs ahead.Past-fixed; current-acts. (The standardtrikāla-karmaschema:samcita(accumulated) andprārabdha(active-portion) aregāḍhē(already-fixed), butkriyamāṇa(current-action)runs ahead and shapes future-samcita.)

  3. Tuka: घुबडा-जन्म — शुकराचं-सरिसें. Owl-or-pig-rebirth-claim. Tuka says: like aghubaḍā's janma; similar is theśukara's (rebirth).Otherwise: owl-or-pig-rebirth. (Without taking-this-now: degraded-rebirth asowl(foolish-night-creature) orpig (dirty-eater) follows.)

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For someone today

Tukaram warns that a chance like this one, this meeting, this opening toward the divine, may not come around again, and you have no independent power to summon it back at will. So take what has been given to you right now, and sing the Name with real love while you can. He points out that what you have already accumulated and what is set to play out from your past, samcita and prarabdha, is already fixed and deeply set, but your current actions, kriyamana, keep running ahead and shaping what comes next. If you squander this opening instead of acting, he says bluntly, you risk a birth as low as an owl's or a pig's. The teaching is simple: this moment of opportunity is not guaranteed to return, so use it now.

मराठी: तुकाराम महाराज बजावतात की असे भेटणे, असा प्रसंग, परमेश्वराकडे जाण्याची ही संधी, पुन्हा पुन्हा मिळेलच असे नाही, आणि ती परत आणण्याची स्वतंत्र सत्ता तुमच्या हातात नाही. म्हणून जे आत्ता फावले आहे ते घ्या, आणि जमेल तोवर आवडीने नामस्मरण करा. ते सांगतात की तुमचे संचित आणि प्रारब्ध, म्हणजे आधीच साठलेले आणि ठरलेले, हे गाढ रुजलेले आहे, पण तुमचे आत्ताचे क्रियमाण कर्म मात्र पुढे धावत जाऊन पुढचे घडवते. ही संधी वापरण्याऐवजी वाया घालवली, तर ते स्पष्ट शब्दांत बजावतात, घुबड किंवा डुकरासारखा हलका जन्म वाट्याला येऊ शकतो. शिकवण साधी आहे, ही संधी पुन्हा मिळेल याची खात्री नाही, म्हणून ती आत्ताच वापरा.

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