Abhanga 969

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A mother-gives-up-only-when-life-goes-out-You're-not-weak-or-deaf-what-lack-has-come-to-Nārāyaṇa-no-moment-by-moment-care-no-taste-to-vacana-fruit-comes-bitter abhang. Mother-gives-up-only-at-death-fruit-bitter register. Three claims:

1. माता-सांडी-जीव-जाय-वरी — आश्चर्यता-बाळ. Mother-gives-up-only-at-death-claim. The mātā gives-up only when jīva goes-out; that's the āścaryatā of the bāḷaka. Mother-doesn't-let-go-of-living-child. (Implication: You-Hari are letting-go-of-the-bhakta who-is-still-alive — that's worse than even the most-extreme-mother.)

2. दुर्बळ-नाहीं — कान-न-ऐकत-नाहीं — Nārāyaṇा-न्यून — क्षण-क्षण-सांभाळ-नाहीं. What-lack-has-come-claim. You're not durbaḷa, not kānī-deaf; what nyūna has come?; no *kṣaṇa-kṣaṇā sāmbhāḷa.

3. Tuka: वचन-रुचि-नाहीं — फल-कटवें. Fruit-bitter-claim. Tuka says: no ruci to vacana; fruit is just kaṭavē.

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For someone today

This abhang names the mother-gives-up-only-at-death-fruit-bitter register:

1. Mother gives up only when child's life goes out. Mother-extreme.

2. You're not weak or deaf; what lack has come to Nārāyaṇa? No-excuse.

3. No moment-by-moment care; fruit comes bitter. Bitter-fruit.

For today: mātā lets go only when jīva goes; no durbaḷa, no kānī-deaf; what nyūna?; no kṣaṇa-kṣaṇā sāmbhāḷa; no ruci to vacana, phala kaṭavē**.

This abhang is Tukaram's mother-gives-up-only-at-death-fruit-bitter register — one of the most-cutting comparison-with-mother statements. Compare 0825 jananī-stana-pānhā-mother-bears-all (Tuka's mudra); same mother-image but here used in reverse-comparison against Hari. The phala kaṭavē ci tē tē hōya (the fruit comes bitter) is the precise bitter-result image*.

मराठी: ही ओवी mother-gives-up-only-at-death-fruit-bitter register नाव सांगते:

1. माता-जीव-जाय-वरी. Mother-extreme.

2. Nārāyaṇ-न्यून-काय. No-excuse.

3. फल-कटवें. Bitter-fruit.

आज: Mātā — jīva-jāya-varī; durbaḷa, kānī नाहीं; nyūna काय?; Kṣaṇa-kṣaṇā sāmbhāḷa नाहीं; abhāgyācā kāḷa; Vacana ruci नाहीं — phala kaṭavē**.

Tukaram च-mother-gives-up-only-at-death-fruit-bitter-register — Most-cutting comparison-with-mother statements पैकी एक. 0825 (Tuka mudra) compare; तीच mother-image पण इथे reverse-comparison-नं. Phala kaṭavē ci tē tē hōya precise bitter-result image.

Where this applies

• Mother-extreme.* Even-mother.
• No-excuse.* Why-far?
• Bitter-fruit.* Result.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2425
• Abhanga 2477 — English: Unceasingly attached, drum-roll in courtyard — holding vaikharī in hand, bhāva sh
• Abhanga 2484
• Abhanga 2540 — English: What greatness will I, low one, describe — you become compassionate, kṛpā-ocean.