Abhanga 1120

Tukaram pictures bhakti as an honest trade. Goods from Dvaraka, Krishna's own city, arrive in Pandharpur, and devotees crowd forward eager to receive them. The devotee pays in advance, full trust with nothing held back, and the measure given in return is always true, so the seller never once looks back with regret, even now. This honest weigher never tires of the exchange, though how far this trade can still go, no one yet knows. In the end the profit covers both this life and the next, and Tuka says he too has already collected his wage: the plain trust that lives in the company of the saints.

The verse

Literal translation

What it means

A Dvārakā-merchandise-comes-to-Pandharī abhang. Five claims, again the marketplace-of-bhakti metaphor:

1. Dvārakā-केणें — भक्त-राय-चोजवित. Dvārakā-goods-claim.

2. विसार-माप — माघारे-न-पाहे. Advance-tied-claim.

3. वैष्णव-मापार-न-सळे — पार-न-कळे. Measurer-not-tired-claim.

4. लाभ-विचार — आहिक्य-परत्र. Both-worlds-saved-claim.

5. Tuka: मजुरी — संत-घर-विश्वास. Got-wage-trust-claim.

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For someone today

Tukaram pictures bhakti as an honest trade. Goods from Dvaraka, Krishna's own city, arrive in Pandharpur, and devotees crowd forward eager to receive them. The devotee pays in advance, full trust with nothing held back, and the measure given in return is always true, so the seller never once looks back with regret, even now. This honest weigher never tires of the exchange, though how far this trade can still go, no one yet knows. In the end the profit covers both this life and the next, and Tuka says he too has already collected his wage: the plain trust that lives in the company of the saints.

मराठी: तुकाराम भक्तीला एका प्रामाणिक व्यापाराची उपमा देतात. द्वारकेचा माल पंढरपुरात येऊन पोहोचतो आणि भक्त मोठ्या आतुरतेने तो स्वीकारण्यासाठी पुढे सरसावतात. भक्त आधीच पूर्ण विश्वासाने, काहीही राखून न ठेवता स्वतःला अर्पण करतो, आणि बदल्यात मिळणारे माप नेहमीच खरे असते, त्यामुळे विक्रेता आजतागायत कधीही मागे वळून पश्चात्ताप करत नाही. हा प्रामाणिक मापारी कधीच थकत नाही, आणि हा व्यापार अजून किती पुढे जाईल हे कोणालाच माहीत नाही. शेवटी या-लोकी आणि परलोकी असा दुहेरी फायदा होतो, आणि तुका म्हणतो की त्यालाही आपली मजुरी आधीच मिळाली आहे — संतांच्या सहवासातला निखळ विश्वास.

Where this applies

• Dvārakā-goods. Bhakta-rāya.
• Advance-tied. Visāra.
• Measurer. Pāra.
• Both-worlds. Sāmṭa.
• Saint-house. Viśvāsa.

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