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Abhanga 1053

English: Kāma-krōdha — jītātī — śarīra — kōvaḷē — varī.

When kāma-krōdha live in body — tender words on surface — and you have to recognize this register
When how have I become worthy at your feet — I don't know — and you accept this image
When saints give puranic testimony — chitta not pure — and you allow this image

The verse

काम क्रोध माझे जीताती शरीरीं । कोवळें तें वरी बोलतसें ॥१॥ कैसा सरतां जालों तुझ्या पायीं । पांडुरंगा कांहीं न कळे हें ॥ध्रु.॥ पुराणींची ग्वाही वदतील संत । तैसें नाहीं चित्त शुद्ध जालें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे मज आणूनि अनुभवा । दाखवीं हें देवा साच खरें ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: Kāma-krōdhajītātīśarīrakōvaḷēvarī. Saratām — Pāṇḍuranga — don't know. Purāṇic gvāhīchitta śuddha — not. Tuka says: anubhavasāca kharē.

मराठी: काम-क्रोध माझे शरीरीं जीतातीं — परि वरी कोवळें बोलतसें. कैसा तुझ्या पायीं सरतां जालों? — Pāṇḍurangā, हें कांहीं न कळे. पुराणीची ग्वाही संत वदतील — तैसें माझें चित्त शुद्ध नाहीं जालें. Tuka म्हणे: मज अनुभवा आणूनि — Dēvā, हें साच-खरें दाखवीं.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
काम क्रोध माझे जीताती शरीरीं "kāma-krōdhajītātīśarīra"
कोवळें तें वरी बोलतसें "kōvaḷēvarī"
कैसा सरतां जालों तुझ्या पायीं "saratām"
पांडुरंगा कांहीं न कळे हें "Pāṇḍuranga — don't know"
पुराणींची ग्वाही वदतील संत "purāṇic gvāhī"
तैसें नाहीं चित्त शुद्ध जालें "chitta śuddha — not"
मज आणूनि अनुभवा "anubhava"
दाखवीं हें देवा साच खरें "sāca kharē"

What it means

A kāma-and-krōdha-live-in-my-body-but-on-the-surface-I-speak-tender-words-how-have-I-become-worthy-at-your-feet-Pāṇḍuranga-this-I-don't-know-the-saints-will-give-puranic-testimony-but-my-mind-has-not-become-so-pure-bring-me-into-experience-show-this-to-me-Dēva-true-and-real abhang. Bring-me-into-anubhava-true-and-real register. The outer-sweet-inner-rough self-confession. Four claims:

  1. काम-क्रोध-शरीर — कोवळें-वरी. Kāma-krōdha-live-tender-words-on-surface-claim. Kāma-krōdha live (jītātī) in my śarīra; but on the *varī (surface, outside), I speak kōvaḷē (tender, sweet) words. (The outer-sweet-inner-rough split.)

  2. सरतां-तुझ्या-पाय — न-कळे. Don't-know-how-worthy-claim. How have I become saratām (worthy, passed as worthy) at your *pāya?; Pāṇḍurangā, this I don't know*.

  3. पुराण-ग्वाही-संत — चित्त-शुद्ध-नाहीं. Saints-testimony-chitta-not-pure-claim. The samtas will give purāṇic gvāhī (puranic testimony, scriptural witness); but my chitta has not become so śuddha. (Saints can quote scripture about what bhakti looks like* — but my own chitta hasn't yet matched.)

  4. Tuka: अनुभव — साच-खरें-दाखवीं. Bring-me-into-anubhava-show-true-and-real-claim. Tuka says: bring me into anubhava (experience); show this to me, Dēvā, sāca kharē (true-and-real). (Don't just have the saints testifylet me experience it*.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the bring-me-into-anubhava-true-and-real register:

  1. Kāma-krōdha live in body — tender words on surface. Outer-inner-split.

  2. How worthy at your feet — don't know. Don't-know-worthy.

  3. Saints give testimony — chitta not pure. Testimony-vs-chitta.

  4. Bring me into anubhava — show true-and-real. Anubhava-real.

For today: kāma-krōdha śarīra, kōvaḷē varī; saratām pāya-unknown, Pāṇḍuranga; purāṇic gvāhī, chitta śuddha not yet; anubhava-āṇūn, sāca kharē dākhavī*.

This abhang is Tukaram's bring-me-into-anubhava-true-and-real registerone of the most-precise outer-sweet-inner-rough-self-confession statements. The dākhavīm hē Dēvā sāca kharē (show this to me, Dēvā, true-and-real) is the precise show-real claim.

मराठी: ही ओवी bring-me-into-anubhava-true-and-real register नाव सांगते:

  1. काम-क्रोध-शरीर. Outer-inner-split.

  2. सरतां-न-कळे. Don't-know-worthy.

  3. पुराण-ग्वाही. Testimony-vs-chitta.

  4. अनुभव-साच-खरें. Anubhava-real.

आज: Kāma-krōdha śarīrī, kōvaḷē varī; Saratām tujhyā pāyī कैसा?, Pāṇḍurangā; Purāṇic gvāhī, chitta śuddha नाहीं; Anubhavā āṇūn — sāca kharē dākhavī, Dēvā*.

Tukaram च-bring-me-into-anubhava-true-and-real-registerMost-precise outer-sweet-inner-rough-self-confession statements पैकी एक. Dākhavīm hē Dēvā sāca kharē precise show-real claim.

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