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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2149 of 4582

Abhanga 2149

When you feel fundamentally burdened and unequipped, you can hand over the whole weight and ask for guidance to become your sight, your means, and your light.

When you feel weighed down as if burdened from the very start.
When you no longer trust your own ability to find the way forward.
When you hand over a problem completely instead of agonizing over it.

The verse

आतां घेई माझें । भार सकळ ही ओझें ॥१॥ काय करिसी होईं वाड । आलों पोटासीं दगड ॥ध्रु.॥ तूं चि डोळे वाती । होईं दीपक सांगातीं ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे कांहीं । विचाराया चाड नाहीं ॥३॥

Literal translation

Now take my — whole burden, the load. What will you do — grow up — I came with a stone in belly. You yourself be the eyes, the wick — be the lamp-companion. Tuka says: nothing — no need to consider.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
आतां घेई माझें "now take my"
भार सकळ ही ओझें "whole burden, the load"
काय करिसी होईं वाड "what will you do — grow up"
आलों पोटासीं दगड "I came with a stone in belly"
तूं चि डोळे वाती "you yourself be the eyes, the wick"
होईं दीपक सांगातीं "be the lamp-companion"
तुका म्हणे कांहीं "Tuka says — nothing"
विचाराया चाड नाहीं "no need to consider"

What it means

Take-my-burden + you-be-eyes-wick-lamp-companion abhang.

The opening — burden-transfer: ātām ghē'ī mājhē — bhāra sakaḷa hī ōjhēnow take my — whole burden, the load. Take-the-whole-burden.

The stone-in-belly: kāya karisī hō'īm vāḍa — ālōm pōṭāsīm dagaḍawhat will you do — grow up — I came with a stone in belly. What-can-I-grow-up-into; I-came with-a-stone-in-belly (= I'm-burdened-from-birth).

The eyes-wick-lamp-companion: tūm chi ḍōḷē vātī — hō'īm dīpaka sāngātīmyou yourself be the eyes, the wick — be the lamp-companion. You-be the eyes (vision), the wick (means), the lamp-companion (light + presence). Triple-substitution: Lord as-everything-needed.

The closing — no-consideration: Tukā mhaṇē kāhīm — vichārāyā chāḍa nāhīmnothing — no need to consider. No-need-to-think-it-over.

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For someone today

For today: now take my — whole burden, the load; what will you do — grow up — I came with a stone in belly; you yourself be the eyes, the wick — be the lamp-companion; Tuka says — nothing — no need to consider.

Where this applies

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