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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 946 of 4582

Abhanga 946

Tukaram says these words are not really his own; Viṭṭhal speaks through him and does everything. Because of that, he tells us not to carry worry or regret, since good will come if we simply hold that trust in our hearts. The one false thing, he says, is ego, the sense that I am the one doing this, and the very act of speaking honestly tosses that ego aside. In the end only God truly knows whose gift this is; Tukaram calls himself just the measuring spoon that the grain passes through, not the source of the grain itself.

When these aren't my words; Viṭṭhal does it all — and you have to recognize this register
When don't hold regret; hita will be — and you accept this image
When the false thing is ahantā; the path was tossed-aside — and you allow this image

The verse

नव्हती माझे बोल । अवघें करितो विठ्ठल ॥१॥ कांहीं न धरावी खंती । हित होइल धरा चित्तीं ॥ध्रु.॥ खोटी ते अहंता । वाट टाकिली सांगतां ॥२॥ ज्याचें तो चि जाणें । मी मापाडें तुका म्हणे ॥३॥

Literal translation

Navhatibōla — Viṭṭhal — all. Khantī — none — hitacitta. Khōṭīahantāvāṭaṭākilīsāngatām. Tuka says: jāṇēmā-pāḍa.

मराठी: नव्हती माझे बोल — अवघें करितो Viṭṭhal. कांहीं खंती न-धरावी — हित होईल — चित्तीं धरा. खोटी ती अहंता — सांगतां वाट टाकिली. ज्याचें ते-च जाणें — मी मा-पाडें (मापाचा-कांच) — Tuka म्हणे.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
नव्हती माझे बोल "navhatibōla"
अवघें करितो विठ्ठल "all — Viṭṭhal"
कांहीं न धरावी खंती "khantī — none"
हित होइल धरा चित्तीं "hitacitta"
खोटी ते अहंता "khōṭīahantā"
वाट टाकिली सांगतां "vāṭaṭākilīsāngatām"
ज्याचें तो चि जाणें "whose — jāṇē"
मी मापाडें "mā-pāḍa"

What it means

A these-are-not-my-words-Viṭṭhal-does-it-all-don't-hold-regret-hita-will-be-the-false-thing-is-ahantā-path-tossed-aside-when-telling-He-alone-knows-I-am-the-measuring-spoon abhang. I-am-only-the-mā-pāḍa register. Three claims:

  1. नव्हती-बोल — Viṭṭhal-करितो — खंती-नकाहीं — हित-चित्तीं. Not-my-words-claim. Not mybōla; Viṭṭhal does all;no khantī, hita will be.He-speaks-through-me-don't-fret.

  2. खोटी-अहंता — सांगतां-वाट-टाकिली. Ahantā-tossed-aside-claim. Thekhōṭīisahantā; whensāngatām, thevāṭawasṭākilī. Telling-discards-the-ahantā-path.

  3. Tuka: ज्याचं-तो-च-जाणें — मी-मा-पाडें. I-am-only-mā-pāḍa-claim. Tuka says: whose it-is, He-alone knows; I am themā-pāḍa. Measuring-spoon-not-the-storehouse. (The mā-pāḍa image: a measuring-vessel through which the grain passes — but the grain isn't its-own. Tuka is just the measuring-vessel — the vacana-content belongs to Viṭṭhal.)

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For someone today

Tukaram says these words are not really his own; Viṭṭhal speaks through him and does everything. Because of that, he tells us not to carry worry or regret, since good will come if we simply hold that trust in our hearts. The one false thing, he says, is ego, the sense that I am the one doing this, and the very act of speaking honestly tosses that ego aside. In the end only God truly knows whose gift this is; Tukaram calls himself just the measuring spoon that the grain passes through, not the source of the grain itself.

मराठी: तुकाराम महाराज म्हणतात की हे शब्द खरे तर माझे नाहीत, विठ्ठलच माझ्यामार्फत बोलतो आणि सर्व काही तोच करतो. म्हणून ते सांगतात की काळजी किंवा खंत बाळगू नका, कारण मनात हा विश्वास धरला की हित आपोआप घडेल. खरी खोटी गोष्ट म्हणजे अहंता, मीच हे करतो असा भाव, आणि प्रामाणिकपणे बोलण्यानेच ही अहंतेची वाट टाकली जाते. शेवटी ज्याचे हे आहे तेच जाणतो, तुकाराम स्वतःला फक्त मापाचे भांडे म्हणतात, ज्यातून धान्य जाते पण जे स्वतः धान्याचे मालक नसते.

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