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Abhanga 2361

English: There is vēvasāva — be helpers to each other.

The verse

करिती तया वेवसाव आहे । येथें व्हा रे साहे एकां एक ॥१॥ गातां आइकतां समान चि घडे । लाभें लाभ जोडे विशेषता ॥ध्रु.॥ प्रेमाचें भरतें भातें घ्यावें अंगीं । नटे टाळी रंगीं शूरत्वेंसी ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे बहुजन्मांचे खंडण । होइल हा सीण निवारोनि ॥३॥ ॥२॥ २३६१

Literal translation

English: There is vēvasāva — be helpers to each other. Singing and listening — equal share — gain joins gain special. ★ Take the prema-tide into the body — the dancer-with-cymbal, in-color, heroically ★. Tuka says: breaking of many births — this exhaustion will be removed.

What it means

★ THE PREMA-TIDE ABHANG ★. Closes the 2-abhang sub-section (॥२॥ at 2360-2361).

The collective: karitī tayā vēvasāva āhē — yēthē vhā rē sāhē ēkām ēkathere is vēvasāva — be helpers to each other. Vēvasāva = business, undertaking. There-is-undertaking-here; be-helpers to-each-other (in-bhakti).

The equal-gain: gātām ā'ikatām samāna chi ghaḍē — lābhē lābha jōḍē viśēṣatāsinging and listening — equal share — gain joins gain special. Singing-and-listening yield-equal-share; gain joins-gain in-a-special-way.

★ THE PREMA-TIDE IMAGE ★: prēmāchē bharatē bhātē ghyāvē angīm — naṭē ṭāḷī rangīm śūratvēmsī★ take the prema-tide into the body — the dancer-with-cymbal, in-color, heroically ★. Bharatē = tide, flood. Bhātē = like a tide, full-tide. ★ Take the prema-bharatē (prema-tide) into-the-body; the dancer-with-the-cymbal, in-the-color (= bhakti-color), with-heroism. ★

The closing — break-of-many-births: Tukā mhaṇē bahu-janmāñchē khaṇḍaṇa — hō'ila hā sīṇa nivārōniTuka says: breaking of many births — this exhaustion will be removed. Breaking-of-many-births; this-exhaustion (sīṇa) will-be-removed.

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For someone today

For today: vēvasāva — be helpers to each other; singing-and-listening equal; ★ take the prema-tide into the body, heroically ★; breaking of many births — exhaustion removed.

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