Abhanga 1626
Real surrender means offering your anger and desire to the Lord instead of fighting them, and once that happens nothing in the world, not even yogic powers, can shake you.
The verse
काम क्रोध आम्ही वाहिले विठ्ठलीं । आवडी धरिली पायांसवें ॥१॥ आतां कोण पाहे मागें परतोनि । गेले हारपोनि देहभाव ॥ध्रु.॥ रिद्धिसिद्धी सुखें हाणितल्या लाता । तेथें या प्राकृता कोण मानी ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे आम्ही विठोबाचे दास । करूनि ठेलों ग्रास ब्रम्हांडाचा ॥३॥
Literal translation
Kāma-krodha we have offered to Viṭhṭhal — āvaḍī attached to (his) feet. Now who looks back behind? — gone vanishing the deha-bhāva. Ṛddhi-siddhi happily I have kicked — there, who counts this prākṛta? Tuka says: we are Viṭhobā's dāsas — having made the Brahmāṇḍa our morsel.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| काम क्रोध आम्ही वाहिले विठ्ठलीं | "kāma-krodha — we have offered — to Viṭhṭhal" |
| आवडी धरिली पायांसवें | "āvaḍī — attached — to (his) feet" |
| आतां कोण पाहे मागें परतोनि | "now — who — looks back — behind" |
| गेले हारपोनि देहभाव | "gone vanishing — deha-bhāva" |
| रिद्धिसिद्धी सुखें हाणितल्या लाता | "ṛddhi-siddhi — happily — I have kicked" |
| तेथें या प्राकृता कोण मानी | "there — this prākṛta — who counts?" |
| तुका म्हणे आम्ही विठोबाचे दास | "Tuka says — we — are Viṭhobā's dāsas" |
| करूनि ठेलों ग्रास ब्रम्हांडाचा | "having made — morsel — of Brahmāṇḍa" |
What it means
Jīvan-mukta-bhakta-as-cosmic-eater abhang.
The offering: kāma krōdha āmhī vāhilē Viṭhṭhalīm — āvaḍī dharilī pāyām-savē — kāma-krodha we have offered to Viṭhṭhal — āvaḍī attached to feet. Vāhilē = flowed/offered; the bhakta has poured kāma-krodha at the Lord's feet (= surrendered them, not killed-them-by-effort, but offered-them-as-oblation).
The no-looking-back: ātām kōṇa pāhē māgē paratōni — gēlē hāra-pōni dēha-bhāva — who looks back now? — deha-bhāva gone vanishing. Hāra-pōni = vanishing, dispersing. Body-identification has dispersed; no looking-back to the body-self.
The siddhi-rejection: ṛddhi-siddhī sukhē hāṇitalyā lātā — tēthē yā prākṛtā kōṇa mānī — ṛddhi-siddhi happily kicked — there, who counts this prākṛta? Ṛddhi-siddhi = the eight-yogic-powers (aṇimā, mahimā, etc.) and worldly-prosperities — typically the goals of yogis; kicked-with-foot = contemptuously-rejected. Prākṛta = the merely-natural / ordinary worldly-thing; who counts the prākṛta-stuff after kicking the ṛddhi-siddhi?
The cosmic-eater claim: Tukā mhaṇē āmhī Viṭhōbācē dāsa — karūni ṭhēlōm grāsa Brahmāṇḍācā — Tuka says: we are Viṭhobā's dāsas — having made the Brahmāṇḍa our morsel. Grāsa = morsel of food; Brahmāṇḍa = the cosmic-egg / the entire-cosmos. We have made the entire cosmos into our morsel. (Striking-formulation: the Viṭhobā-dāsa is the cosmic-eater; the entire universe is one mouthful. Compare 1582's Tukīm tukalā Tukā — viśvīm bharōni uralā lōkām — same cosmic-self-extension. Pattern P10: jīvan-mukta-cosmic-register.)
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For someone today
For today: we have offered kāma and krodha to Viṭhṭhal — our longing has attached to his feet; who looks back now? — body-identification has gone vanishing; we have happily kicked away ṛddhi-siddhi, the yogic powers — there, who counts these merely-natural-things?; Tuka says — we are Viṭhobā's servants — having made the entire cosmic-egg our morsel.
मराठी: आजसाठी: आम्ही काम आणि क्रोध विठ्ठलाला अर्पण केले — आमची ओढ त्याच्या पायांशी बांधली गेली; आता कोण मागे वळून पाहतो? — देहभाव विरून गेला आहे; ऋद्धी-सिद्धी या योगिक शक्तींना आम्ही आनंदाने लाथ मारली — मग या साध्यासुध्या गोष्टींची कोण गणती करतो?; तुका म्हणतो — आम्ही विठोबाचे दास आहोत — संपूर्ण ब्रह्मांडच आमचा एक घास करून टाकला आहे.
Where this applies
- When you are trying to control anger through sheer willpower and it keeps coming back
- When you want to let go of desires but do not know how to release them
- When you have been chasing spiritual powers or worldly success and realize they are not the point
- When you feel a strange fearlessness after finally surrendering something you had been gripping tightly