Abhanga 2343
English: Wealth and festivities don't please the mind — the gaze is fixed on Paṇḍharī.
The verse
संपदा सोहळा नावडे मनाला । करी तें टकळा पंढरीचा ॥१॥ जावें पंढरिसी आवडी मनासी । कधीं एकादशी आषाढी हे ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे ऐसें आर्त ज्याचे मनीं । त्याची चक्रपाणी वाट पाहे ॥३॥
Literal translation
English: Wealth and festivities don't please the mind — the gaze is fixed on Paṇḍharī. ★ To go to Paṇḍharī — fondness in the mind — when [will be] this Āṣāḍhī ēkādaśī ★. Tuka says: whose mind has such ārta — Chakrapāṇī awaits his coming.
What it means
★ THE ĀṢĀḌHĪ-ĒKĀDAŚĪ-LONGING ABHANG ★. Chakrapāṇī awaits the ārta-bhakta.
The opening — no wealth-fascination: sampadā sōhaḷā nāvaḍē manālā — karī tē ṭakaḷā Paṇḍharīchā — wealth and festivities don't please the mind — the gaze is fixed on Paṇḍharī. Ṭakaḷā = gaze, fixed look. Wealth and-festivities don't-please the-mind; the gaze is-fixed-on Paṇḍharī.
★ THE FAMOUS LONGING-LINE ★: jāvē Paṇḍharīsī āvaḍī manāsī — kadhīm ēkādaśī Āṣāḍhī hē — ★ to go to Paṇḍharī — fondness in the mind — when [will be] this Āṣāḍhī ēkādaśī ★. Āṣāḍhī ēkādaśī = the great-ēkādaśī of the Āṣāḍha-month, when the main-Vārkarī-pilgrimage culminates at Paṇḍharī. ★ The mind-yearns to-go-to-Paṇḍharī: when-will-this-Āṣāḍhī-ēkādaśī come? ★ The most-celebrated Vārkarī-longing-line.
The closing — Chakrapāṇī awaits: Tukā mhaṇē aisē ārta jyāchē manīm — tyāchī Chakrapāṇī vāṭa pāhē — Tuka says: whose mind has such ārta — Chakrapāṇī awaits his coming. Whose-mind has-such-ārta (yearning), Chakrapāṇī (the Lord-with-the-discus) himself-awaits-his-coming. The Lord-as-eager-awaiter — a-beautiful-reciprocity-of-bhakti.
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For someone today
For today: wealth and festivities don't please — gaze on Paṇḍharī; ★ to go to Paṇḍharī — when will Āṣāḍhī ēkādaśī come ★; Tuka says — whose mind has such ārta — Chakrapāṇī awaits his coming.
Where this applies
- No-fascination-for-wealth-gaze-on-Paṇḍharī.* Sampadā-sōhaḷā-nāvaḍē-Paṇḍharīchā-ṭakaḷā.
- Āṣāḍhī-ēkādaśī-longing-when-will-it-come. Paṇḍharīsī-āvaḍī-kadhīm-Āṣāḍhī-ēkādaśī.
- Chakrapāṇī-awaits-the-ārta-bhakta.* Ārta-manīm-Chakrapāṇī-vāṭa-pāhē.