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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 962 of 4582

Abhanga 962

After long devotion, Tuka claims the boldness to hold God to His own word, and finds his true foothold in realizing his innermost self and God are not separate.

When we have become strong; we'll snare You by Your own vacanas — and you have to recognize this register
When past behind; vital-points known — and you accept this image
When break all cēṣṭās; be śuddha-buddha at the śuddha's-side — and you allow this image

The verse

आम्ही बळकट जालों फिराउनी । तुमच्या वचनीं तुम्हां गोऊं ॥१॥ जालें तेव्हां जालें मागील तें मागें । आतां वर्मलागें ठावीं जालीं ॥ध्रु.॥ तोडावया अवघ्या चेष्टांचा संबंध । शुद्धापाशीं शुद्ध बुद्ध व्हावें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे आम्हां आत्मत्वाची सोय । आपण चि होय तैसा चि तूं ॥३॥

Literal translation

Baḷakaṭaphirāunivacanagōūm. Māgila — back — varma-lāgē. Cēṣṭāsambandhaśuddha-buddha. Tuka says: ātmatvasōya — Yourself — taisā.

मराठी: आम्ही बळकट जालों फिराउनि — तुमच्या वचनीं तुम्हां गोऊं. जालें तेव्हां जालें — मागील तें मागें — आतां वर्म-लागें ठावीं जालीं. तोडावया अवघ्या चेष्टांचा संबंध — शुद्धा-पाशीं शुद्ध-बुद्ध व्हावें. Tuka म्हणे: आम्हां आत्मत्वाची सोय — आपण-च होय, तैसा-च तूं.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
आम्ही बळकट जालों फिराउनी "baḷakaṭaphirāuni"
तुमच्या वचनीं तुम्हां गोऊं "vacanagōūm"
जालें तेव्हां जालें मागील तें मागें "māgila — back"
आतां वर्मलागें ठावीं जालीं "varma-lāgē"
तोडावया अवघ्या चेष्टांचा संबंध "cēṣṭāsambandha"
शुद्धापाशीं शुद्ध बुद्ध व्हावें "śuddhabuddha"
आम्हां आत्मत्वाची सोय "ātmatvasōya"
आपण चि होय तैसा चि तूं "Yourself — taisā"

What it means

A we-have-become-strong-turning-around-snare-You-by-Your-own-vacanas-vital-points-known-break-cēṣṭās-be-pure-and-aware-at-pure-side-foothold-of-ātmatva-You-Yourself-become-thus abhang. We'll-snare-You-by-Your-own-vacanas register. Three claims:

  1. बळकट-फिराउनि — वचनीं-गोऊं — मागील-मागें — वर्म-लागें-ठावीं. Snare-You-by-Your-own-words-claim. We have becomebaḷakaṭaphirāuni; by Yourvacanas we willgōūmYou; past behind; varma-lāgē known.Strong-now-and-knowing-Your-vital-points-from-Your-own-words.

  2. चेष्टा-संबंध-तोडावया — शुद्धा-पाशीं-शुद्ध-बुद्ध. Break-cēṣṭās-be-pure-aware-claim. To break allcēṣṭā-sambandha; beśuddha-buddhaat theśuddha's-side. Pure-and-aware-no-tricks.

  3. Tuka: आत्मत्व-सोय — आपण-चि-होय-तैसा-चि-तूं. Foothold-of-ātmatva-claim. Tuka says: for us, thesōyaofātmatva; You-Yourself becometaisā ci. You-Yourself-as-the-foothold.

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For someone today

Tukaram declares a startling kind of spiritual boldness: after all his devotion, he says he has grown strong enough to hold God to His own promises, using God's own words as leverage. What is done is done, he says, the past is behind, but now the devotee knows exactly where God's vulnerable points are. To break free of all these games and tricks, he wants only to stand purely, awake and honest, beside what is pure. In the end, Tuka says his only real foothold is his own true self, and that true self and God turn out to be the same thing.

मराठी: तुकाराम एक चकित करणारा आध्यात्मिक धाडसीपणा सांगतात: इतक्या भक्तीनंतर, त्यांना वाटतं की आता ते इतके बळकट झाले आहेत की देवाला त्याच्याच वचनांनी बांधून ठेवू शकतात. जे झालं ते झालं, भूतकाळ मागे राहिला, पण आता भक्ताला देवाच्या नाजूक जागा नेमक्या माहीत झाल्या आहेत. सगळे खेळ आणि युक्त्या तोडून टाकण्यासाठी, त्यांना फक्त शुद्ध, जागृत आणि प्रामाणिक राहायचं आहे, शुद्धाच्या सोबतीनं. शेवटी तुका म्हणतात, त्यांचा खरा आधार म्हणजे त्यांचं स्वतःचं खरं स्वरूप आहे, आणि ते स्वरूप आणि देव शेवटी एकच निघतात.

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