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Abhanga 1268

Set the worry-talk aside instead of feeding it, stay a step apart from what wounds you, and guard your own peace with quiet, steady firmness.

When you catch yourself rehashing the same argument over and over without resolution.

When you find yourself hurt by every word someone else says and can't shake it off.

When you need to protect your inner calm by stepping back from a draining conversation.

The verse

आम्हीं याची केली सांडी । कोठें तोंडीं लागावें ॥१॥ आहे तैसा असो आतां । चिंतें चिंता वाढते ॥ध्रु.॥ बोलिल्याचा मानी सीण । भिन्न भिन्न राहावें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे आम्हांपाशीं । धीराऐसी जतन ॥३॥

Literal translation

We have set this aside — where to engage the mouth? Let it be as it is now — by cintā, cintā grows. (One who) minds the spoken finds sīṇa — let (us) stay separate. Tuka says: with us — preservation like dhīra.

मराठी: आम्हीं हें सांडलें (बाजूला ठेवलें) — कुठें तोंडानें लागायचें (बोलायचें)? आहे तसें-च असो — चिंतेनें चिंता वाढते. बोललेल्याचा सीण मानला तर — भिन्न-भिन्न (वेगळें) राहावें. Tukā म्हणे — आमच्या-कडे — धीरा-सारिखी जतना.

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
आम्हीं याची केली सांडी	"we have done sāṇḍī (set-aside) of this"
कोठें तोंडीं लागावें	"where to engage (lāgāvē) the tōṇḍī (mouth)?"
आहे तैसा असो आतां	"let it be as it is now"
चिंतें चिंता वाढते	"by cintā — cintā grows"
बोलिल्याचा मानी सीण	"(one who) minds the spoken finds sīṇa"
भिन्न भिन्न राहावें	"let (us) stay separate (bhinna-bhinna)"
आम्हांपाशीं धीराऐसी जतन	"with us — like dhīra — jatana (preservation)"

What it means

Decision-to-set-aside-the-talk abhang. The decisive line: cintē cintā vāḍhatē — cintā grows cintā — engaging in the cintā-cycle (worry-talk-discussion) only makes more cintā. The way out is sāṇḍī (set-aside).

The closing prescription: bhinna-bhinna rāhāvē — stay separate. Don't engage; bōliliyāncā mānī sīṇa — one who minds the spoken finds sīṇa (exhaustion / pain). And then āmhāmpāśīm — dhīrā-aisī jatana — with us — preservation like dhīra (firmness). Dhīra is the warkari's quiet-firmness; jatana is preservation. Together: we keep ourselves the way one keeps something carefully.

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For someone today

For today: set the talk aside; cintā only grows cintā; stay bhinna-bhinna and preserve yourself like dhīra.

Where this applies

Set-aside. Sāṇḍī.
Cintā-grows-cintā. Cintē-cintā-vāḍhatē.
Stay-separate. Bhinna-bhinna-rāhāvē.
Preserve-like-dhīra. Dhīrā-aisī-jatana.

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