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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 947 of 4582

Abhanga 947

Checking your cravings down to only what you need brings a settled mind where God can be felt, and closeness to the divine grows in direct proportion to how fully you give yourself to devotional practice.

When strike vāsanā at mouth fearfully; take only survival amount — and you have to recognize this register
When Nārāyaṇa came to antara; citta-samādhāna is His sign — and you accept this image
When always do this vicāra; attentive to ātmatva-vivēka — and you allow this image

The verse

वासनेच्या मुखीं अदळूनि भीतें । निर्वाहापुरतें कारण तें ॥१॥ या नांवें अंतरा आला नारायण । चित्तसमाधान खुण त्याची ॥ध्रु.॥ सर्वकाळ हा चि करणें विचार । विवेकीं सादर आत्मत्वाचे ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे जों जों भजनासी वळे । अंग तों तों कळे सन्निधता ॥३॥

Literal translation

Vāsanā — mukha — adaḷūni — bhītē — nirvāha. Nāmvē — antara — Nārāyaṇa. Citta-samādhāna — khuṇa. Vicāra — vivēka — ātmatva. Tuka says: bhajana — vaḷē — anga — sannidhatā.

मराठी: वासनेच्या मुखी अदळूनि भीतें — निर्वाहा-पुरतें कारण तें. ह्या नांवें अंतरा आला Nārāyaṇa — चित्त-समाधान खुण त्याची. सर्व-काळ हा-च विचार करणें — विवेकीं सादर आत्मत्वाचे. Tuka म्हणे: जों-जों भजनासि वळे अंग — तों-तों सन्निधता कळे.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
वासनेच्या मुखीं अदळूनि भीतें "vāsanā — mukha — adaḷūni — bhītē"
निर्वाहापुरतें कारण तें "nirvāha — kāraṇa"
या नांवें अंतरा आला नारायण "nāmvē — antara — Nārāyaṇa"
चित्तसमाधान खुण त्याची "citta-samādhāna — khuṇa"
सर्वकाळ हा चि करणें विचार "vicāra"
विवेकीं सादर आत्मत्वाचे "vivēka — ātmatva"
जों जों भजनासी वळे "bhajana — vaḷē"
अंग तों तों कळे सन्निधता "anga — sannidhatā"

What it means

A strike-vāsanā-at-mouth-fearfully-only-survival-Nārāyaṇa-came-to-antara-citta-samādhāna-His-sign-always-do-this-vicāra-attentive-to-ātmatva-as-body-bends-to-bhajana-that-much-closeness-known abhang. Closeness-by-bhajana-bending register. Three claims:

  1. वासनेच्या-मुखीं-अदळूनि — निर्वाह-पुरतें — Nārāyaṇa-अंतरा — चित्त-समाधान-खुण. Vāsanā-restrained-Nārāyaṇa-comes-claim. Strikevāsanāatmukhafearfully; take only-as-much-as-nirvāha; by-this,Nārāyaṇacame toantara; citta-samādhāna is His khuṇa.

  2. सर्व-काळ-विचार — विवेकीं-आत्मत्व. Always-vicāra-claim. Always do thisvicāra; attentive invivēkaofātmatva.

  3. Tuka: भजना-वळे-अंग — सन्निधता-कळे. Closeness-by-bending-claim. As theangavaḷē(bends) tobhajana; that-muchsannidhatāis known. Closeness-proportionate-to-bending-of-body-to-bhajana.

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For someone today

Tukaram teaches that you should check your cravings right at the mouth, taking only what you truly need to get by, nothing more. When you live that way, Nārāyaṇa enters your heart, and the sign of His presence is a settled, peaceful mind. He says this reflection has to be constant, an ongoing attentiveness to who you really are underneath all the wanting. And the closeness you feel to the divine grows exactly in proportion to how fully your body and effort bend toward devotional practice, bhajana; the more you give yourself to it, the more that nearness becomes real.

मराठी: तुकाराम महाराज शिकवतात की आपली वासना तोंडाशीच रोखावी, फक्त गरजेपुरतेच घ्यावे, त्याहून अधिक नको. असे जगल्यास नारायण अंतःकरणात येतो, आणि त्याच्या असण्याची खूण म्हणजे चित्ताचे समाधान. हे चिंतन सतत असावे लागते, आपल्या खऱ्या स्वरूपाकडे सतत जागरूक लक्ष असावे. आणि देवाशी जाणवणारी जवळीक ही आपले शरीर आणि प्रयत्न भजनाकडे किती वळतात यावर अवलंबून असते, जितके स्वतःला भजनात झोकून द्याल तितकी ती जवळीक अधिक खरी वाटू लागते.

Where this applies

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