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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 963 of 4582

Abhanga 963

Trusting God will not abandon him, Tuka still asks why help is delayed and why he must keep begging for something that costs an already complete God nothing to give.

When You won't forsake — this is my confidence — and you have to recognize this register
When You know me as adhīra; why put my uplift at a distance? — and you accept this image
When drive away the petty-things; it's not right to be loosened — and you allow this image

The verse

तुम्ही साच नुपेक्षाल हा भरवसा । मज जाणतसां अधीरसें ॥१॥ कासया घातला लांबणी उद्धार । ठेवा करकर वारूनियां ॥ध्रु.॥ सुटों नये ऐसें कळले निरुतें । कां घ्यावें मागुतें आळवुनि ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे तुम्ही सभाग्य जी देवा । माझा तुम्हां केवा काय आला ॥३॥

Literal translation

Upēkṣāla — bharavasā — adhīra. Lāmbaṇī — uddhāra — kara-kara — vārūniyām. Suṭōm — nirutē — āḷavuni. Tuka says: sa-bhāgya — kēvā.

मराठी: तुम्ही साच न-उपेक्षाल — हा भरवसा — मज जाणतसां अधीरसें. कासया घातला लांबणी उद्धार — ठेवा करकर वारूनियां. सुटों नये ऐसें कळलें निरुतें — कां घ्यावें मागुतें आळवुनि?. Tuka म्हणे: तुम्ही सभाग्य जी, देवा — माझा तुम्हां केवा काय आला?.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
तुम्ही साच नुपेक्षाल हा भरवसा "upēkṣāla — bharavasā"
मज जाणतसां अधीरसें "adhīra"
कासया घातला लांबणी उद्धार "lāmbaṇī — uddhāra"
ठेवा करकर वारूनियां "kara-kara — vārūniyām"
सुटों नये ऐसें कळले निरुतें "suṭōm — nirutē"
कां घ्यावें मागुतें आळवुनि "āḷavuni"
तुम्ही सभाग्य जी देवा "sa-bhāgya"
माझा तुम्हां केवा काय आला "kēvā"

What it means

A You-won't-truly-forsake-You-know-me-impatient-why-put-uplift-at-distance-drive-away-petty-it's-not-right-to-be-loosened-why-must-I-keep-beseeching-You-are-sa-bhāgya-what-of-mine-comes-to-You abhang. Don't-make-me-keep-beseeching register. Three claims:

  1. न-उपेक्षाल-भरवसा — अधीर-जाणतसां — लांबणी-उद्धार — कर-कर-वारा. Don't-put-uplift-at-distance-claim. You won'tupēkṣāla;this is the bharavasā; You know me asadhīra; whylāmbaṇī uddhāra? — drive away the kara-kara.

  2. सुटों-नये-कळलें — आळवुनि-कां-मागुतें. Why-must-I-beseech-claim. Clearly known I shouldn't besuṭōm; why must I keepāḷavuni again?

  3. Tuka: सभाग्य-Dēva — माझा-केवा-काय-आला. What-of-mine-comes-to-You-claim. Tuka says: You aresa-bhāgya, Dēva;what kēvā of mine has come to You?You're-fortunate-already-what-could-I-add-or-take?. (Subtle: You're alreadysa-bhāgya(full-of-fortune) — what could my-turning-toward-You possiblyadd to You? — yet why withhold?)

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For someone today

Tukaram admits he trusts, deep down, that God will not really abandon him, but that very trust makes his impatience sharper: why delay the help he needs? He asks God to sweep away the daily friction and irritation and simply act. He already knows he should not be left to drift on his own, so why must he keep begging over and over? In a striking closing line, Tuka points out that God is already complete and fortunate, so nothing he offers in devotion truly adds anything, which makes the delay even harder to understand.

मराठी: तुकाराम कबूल करतात की त्यांना मनातून खात्री आहे की देव त्यांना खरोखर सोडून देणार नाही, पण हीच खात्री त्यांची अधीरता अधिक तीव्र करते: मदत का लांबवली जाते? ते देवाला रोजची चिडचिड आणि घर्षण दूर करून सरळ कृती करण्याची विनंती करतात. त्यांना आधीच माहीत आहे की त्यांना असंच सोडून द्यायला नको, मग वारंवार विनवणी का करावी लागते? शेवटच्या ठळक ओळीत तुका सांगतात की देव आधीच संपूर्ण आणि भाग्यवान आहे, त्यामुळे त्यांच्या भक्तीने खरंच काही भर पडत नाही, आणि म्हणूनच हा विलंब अधिकच न समजण्यासारखा वाटतो.

Where this applies

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