Abhanga 1043

When you truly hand your worries about security and outcomes to God, ordinary life among good company becomes enough, and anxious self-consciousness gives way to joy.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A now-this-is-our-work-don't-forget-your-name-clapping-cymbals-dance-with-love-bliss-everything-has-become-leisure-permitted-back-and-front-with-everything-the-pain-of-the-triad-prārabdha-pushed-aside-on-the-clean-Gōdā-bank-temples-of-the-God-of-Gods-assembly-of-saints-and-mahantas-the-day-passes-in-bliss-Pandharī-nātha-no-other-anxiety-the-burden-of-yoga-kṣema-placed-on-your-head abhang. Yōga-kṣēma-bhāra-on-your-māthā register. The full-surrender-no-other-anxiety abhang. Four claims:

1. काम-नाम-नाच — टाळी-प्रेम-सुख. Now-this-is-our-work-claim. Now this-very is ourkāma;don't visambhāvē (forget) your nāma;clapping ṭāḷī, dance with prēma-sukha.

2. आराणूक — त्रिपुटी-दुःख-प्रारब्ध-सारिलें. Triad-pain-prārabdha-pushed-aside-claim. Āraṇūka has happened;back-and-front, sa-kiḷaka (with-everything); theduḥkhaoftri-puṭi (the triad: knower-known-knowing),prārabdhahas beensārilē (pushed-aside).

3. Gōdā-तट — Dēvळें — संत-मेळ — सुख-दिवस. Gōdā-bank-claim. On the cleanGōdā-taṭē;the Dēva-Dēvāñcī Dēvaḷē (the Dēva-of-Dēvas's temples); samta-mahanta-mēḷē;the divasa passes in sukha. (At Dehu / Pandhari on the Indrayani-Godavari belt, temples and saints assemble.)

4. Tuka: Pandharī-nātha — चिंता-नाहीं — योग-क्षेम-तुझ्या-माथां. Yōga-kṣēma-bhāra-on-your-māthā-claim. Tuka says: Pandharī-nāthā;no other chinta to me;yoga-kṣēma (acquisition-and-preservation, well-being) — the bhāra placed on your māthā.

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For someone today

Tukaram describes what real surrender feels like day to day. Now our only task, he says, is to never forget your name; clapping cymbals and dancing in the joy of love. All the old anxieties are gone: the suffering that comes from constantly separating yourself into the one who knows, the thing known, and the knowing itself, a kind of restless self-consciousness, has been set aside, along with worry about fate. Instead, life becomes simple, sitting by the clean river bank among temples, in the company of saints, letting the day pass in contentment. Tukaram closes with the boldest line: Pandharinatha, I have no other worry, because I've placed the whole burden of my well-being on your head. When you genuinely hand over your worry about outcomes to something bigger than yourself, ordinary life becomes enough, and joy replaces anxious self-monitoring.

मराठी: तुकाराम इथे खऱ्या शरणागतीचा रोजचा अनुभव सांगतात. आता आमचं एकच काम आहे, ते म्हणतात: तुझं नाव कधीच विसरायचं नाही, टाळ वाजवत प्रेमसुखाने नाचायचं. जुन्या सगळ्या चिंता संपल्या आहेत. जाणणारा, जाणलेली गोष्ट आणि जाणण्याची क्रिया अशा त्रिपुटीत स्वतःला सतत विभागत राहण्याचं जे दुःख असतं, तेही आणि नशिबाची काळजीही आता बाजूला सारली आहे. त्याऐवजी आयुष्य साधं होऊन जातं: निर्मळ नदीकाठी, देवळांच्या सान्निध्यात, संतांच्या सोबतीत दिवस समाधानात जातो. आणि तुकाराम शेवटी सगळ्यात ठाम ओळ सांगतात: पंढरीनाथा, मला आणखी कोणतीही चिंता नाही, कारण माझ्या कल्याणाचा सगळा भार मी तुझ्या डोक्यावर ठेवला आहे. जेव्हा आपण निकालांची चिंता खरोखर एका मोठ्या शक्तीच्या हाती सोपवतो, तेव्हा साधं आयुष्य पुरेसं वाटू लागतं, आणि सततच्या चिंतेच्या जागी आनंद येतो.

Where this applies

• Our-work. Nāma-nāca.
• Triad-aside. Tri-puṭi.
• Gōdā-bank. Samta-mēḷa.
• Yōga-kṣema-on-head. Bhāra-māthā.

Related verses

• Abhanga 2494 — Living in devotion turns an ordinary day into a festival and removes the fear of birth and
• Abhanga 4481 — Tukaram promises that sincerely calling on the Lord's name, knowingly or unknowingly, with
• Abhanga 4482 — Tukaram teaches that no ritual equals sincerely speaking the Lord's name, that self-center
• Abhanga 2557 — For today: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine .