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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 936 of 4582

Abhanga 936

Give God the same complete, undivided attention a devoted wife gives her husband or a miser gives his wealth, until nothing else competes for that place in your mind.

When just as pati-vratā the husband is pramāṇa, Nārāyaṇa is such for us — and you have to recognize this register
When just as the miser loves wealth with all bhāva, Nārāyaṇa is such for us — and you accept this image
When my mind has become one-mode; apart from Viṭṭhal, knows no second — and you receive this final claim

The verse

पतिव्रते जैसा भ्रतार प्रमाण । आम्हां नारायण तैशापरी ॥१॥ सर्वभावें लोभ्या आवडे हें धन । आम्हां नारायण तैशापरी ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे एकविध जालें मन । विठ्ठला वांचून नेणे दुजें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Pati-vratābhratārapramāṇa. Us — Nārāyaṇa — taisā-parī. Lōbhīdhana. Us — Nārāyaṇa — taisā-parī. Tuka says: eka-vidhamana — Viṭṭhal — duja — none.

मराठी: पति-व्रते-ला जैसा भ्रतार प्रमाण — आम्हां Nārāyaṇa तैशा-परी. सर्व-भावें लोभ्याला हें धन आवडे — आम्हां Nārāyaṇa तैशा-परी. Tuka म्हणे: एक-विध जालें मन — Viṭṭhal-वांचून दुजें नेणे.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
पतिव्रते जैसा भ्रतार प्रमाण "pati-vratābhratārapramāṇa"
आम्हां नारायण तैशापरी "us — Nārāyaṇa — taisā-parī"
सर्वभावें लोभ्या आवडे हें धन "sarva-bhāvalōbhīdhana"
आम्हां नारायण तैशापरी "us — Nārāyaṇa — taisā-parī"
एकविध जालें मन "eka-vidhamana"
विठ्ठला वांचून नेणे दुजें "Viṭṭhal — vāñcūnaduja"

What it means

A just-as-pati-vratā-husband-is-pramāṇa-Nārāyaṇa-is-such-for-us-as-miser-loves-wealth-with-all-bhāva-Nārāyaṇa-is-such-mind-eka-vidha-Viṭṭhal-no-second abhang. Devoted-wife-and-miser-as-parallels-Viṭṭhal-only register. Three claims:

  1. पति-व्रता-भ्रतार-प्रमाण — Nārāyaṇa-तैशा-परी. Pati-vratā-as-parallel-claim. As for thepati-vratāthebhratārais thepramāṇa; Nārāyaṇa is such for us.Wife-with-only-husband-is-our-only-Hari.

  2. लोभ्या-धन-सर्व-भावें — Nārāyaṇa-तैशा-परी. Miser-as-parallel-claim. As thelōbhīlovesdhanawithsarva-bhāva; Nārāyaṇa is such for us.Miser-with-only-wealth-is-our-only-Hari.

  3. Tuka: एक-विध-मन — Viṭṭhal-दुजें-नेणे. Eka-vidha-claim. Tuka says:manahas becomeeka-vidha; apart from Viṭṭhal, it knows noduja. Mind-one-mode-no-second.

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For someone today

A devoted wife has one measure of truth in her life, her husband, and nothing else defines her world. A miser feels that same total absorption toward his wealth, thinking of it constantly, valuing nothing above it. Tukaram says this is exactly how his mind has come to hold Viṭṭhal, so completely that it no longer recognizes anything else as worth that place. He is not asking you to love money or to imitate blind devotion, he is asking you to notice how focused that kind of love already looks in ordinary people, and turn that same undivided attention toward God.

मराठी: पतिव्रता स्त्रीच्या आयुष्यात एकच खरा आधार असतो, तिचा पती, आणि तिच्यासाठी दुसरे काहीच महत्त्वाचे नसते. लोभी माणूस त्याच तीव्रतेने आपल्या धनावर मन लावतो, सतत त्याचाच विचार करतो, त्याहून मोठे काहीच त्याला वाटत नाही. तुकाराम म्हणतात की त्यांचे मन विठ्ठलावर अगदी अशाच प्रकारे एकाग्र झाले आहे, इतके की त्याशिवाय दुसरे काही त्याला दिसतच नाही. पैशावर प्रेम करा असे ते सांगत नाहीत, तर सामान्य माणसांतही असे एकनिष्ठ प्रेम किती तीव्र असू शकते हे दाखवून, तेच अखंड लक्ष देवाकडे वळवायला सांगतात.

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