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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 954 of 4582

Abhanga 954

You have pleaded and pleaded in every way you know, and it feels like the one you love simply will not take you to heart. Tukaram admits it plainly: there is no point nursing a false longing when it is not being met, or dressing up the hurt as devotion. When a real rupture opens between you and what you love, do not fake a reunion; let quiet remembrance itself become the way you stay close, even without a direct meeting. And notice the shame in it too: a life run only on the borrowed strength of unmet desire is a humbling place to live, not a proud one.

When piteous-cry many times — You don't take me — and you have to recognize this register
When what for grow a false yearning? — and you accept this image
When between us a rupture; meeting by cintana now — and you allow this image

The verse

बहुतां रीती काकुलती । आलों चित्तीं न धरा च ॥१॥ आतां काशासाटीं देवा । मिथ्या हेवा वाढवूं ॥ध्रु.॥ तुम्हां आम्हां जाली तुटी । आतां भेटी चिंतनें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे लाजिरवाणें । आधर जिणें इच्छेचें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Bahutām rītī — kākulatī. Citti — none-take. Mithyā hēvā — vāḍhavūm. Tuṭī — bhēṭi — cintana. Tuka says: lājir-vāṇē — ādhara — iccha.

मराठी: बहुतां रीतीनं काकुलती (विनवणी) केली — चित्तीं तुम्ही धरा-च नाहीं. आतां कशा-साटीं, देवा — मिथ्या हेवा वाढवूं?. तुम्हां-आम्हां तुटी जाली — आतां भेटी चिंतनें. Tuka म्हणे: लाजिरवाणें — आधर (उधार) जिणें इच्छेचें.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
बहुतां रीती काकुलती "bahutām rītī — kākulatī"
आलों चित्तीं न धरा च "citti — none-take"
आतां काशासाटीं देवा "what-for — Dēva"
मिथ्या हेवा वाढवूं "mithyā hēvā"
तुम्हां आम्हां जाली तुटी "tuṭī"
आतां भेटी चिंतनें "bhēṭi — cintana"
लाजिरवाणें "lājir-vāṇē"
आधर जिणें इच्छेचें "ādhara — jiṇa — iccha"

What it means

A piteous-cry-many-times-You-don't-take-me-no-more-mithyā-yearning-rupture-meeting-by-cintana-humiliating-life-of-iccha-borrowed abhang. Rupture-and-cintana-meeting register. Three claims:

  1. बहुतां-रीती-काकुलती — चित्ती-धरा-नाहीं — मिथ्या-हेवा-वाढवूं-कशाला. No-more-mithyā-yearning-claim. In many ways,kākulatī; You don't take (me) intocitti; what-for grow amithyā hēvā? I-give-up-yearning-since-You-don't-respond.

  2. तुम्हां-आम्हां-तुटी — भेटी-चिंतनें-च. Rupture-meeting-by-cintana-claim. Atuṭīhas come between us; now thebhēṭiis bycintana (= only-by-mental-recall, not direct-meeting).

  3. Tuka: लाजिरवाणें — आधर-जिणें-इच्छेचें. Humiliating-borrowed-life-claim. Tuka says:lājir-vāṇē (humiliating);the jiṇa of iccha is on ādhara (borrowed-strength).Yearning-living-on-borrowed-power-is-shameful. (Closing-bitterness: thejiṇaoficcha— life-driven-by-yearning-for-Hari — is itselfhumiliatingwhen it lives onādhara(borrowed) rather-thanone's own.)

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For someone today

You have pleaded and pleaded in every way you know, and it feels like the one you love simply will not take you to heart. Tukaram admits it plainly: there is no point nursing a false longing when it is not being met, or dressing up the hurt as devotion. When a real rupture opens between you and what you love, do not fake a reunion; let quiet remembrance itself become the way you stay close, even without a direct meeting. And notice the shame in it too: a life run only on the borrowed strength of unmet desire is a humbling place to live, not a proud one.

मराठी: तुम्ही अनेक प्रकारे विनवणी केली, तरी असं वाटतं की प्रिय व्यक्ती तुम्हाला मनातही घेत नाही. तुकाराम स्पष्ट सांगतात - जी ओढ पूर्ण होत नाही, तिचं खोटं सोंग वाढवण्यात अर्थ नाही, ना दुखावलेल्या मनाला भक्तीचा मुखवटा घालण्यात. जेव्हा प्रिय व्यक्तीशी खरा दुरावा येतो, तेव्हा खोटी भेट साधण्याऐवजी नुसतं चिंतनच जवळीक टिकवण्याचं साधन होऊ द्या. आणि हे लक्षात घ्या - अपूर्ण इच्छेच्या उधार बळावर जगणं ही लाजिरवाणी गोष्ट आहे, अभिमानाची नव्हे.

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