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Abhanga 2388

The verse

भोग तो न घडे संचितावांचूनि । करावें तें मनीं समाधान ॥१॥ म्हणऊनी मनीं मानूं नये खेदु । म्हणावा गोविंद वेळोवेळां ॥ध्रु.॥ आणिकां रुसावें न लगे बहुतां । आपुल्या संचितावांचूनियां ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे भार घातलिया वरी । होईंल कैवारी नारायण ॥३॥

Literal translation

English: ★ Bhōga doesn't come without sanchita — make samādhāna in the mind ★. Don't take grief — say Gōvinda time and again. No need to be angry at others — only one's own sanchita. Tuka says: when burden is placed above (on the Lord) — Nārāyaṇa becomes the protector.

What it means

★ KARMA-EQUANIMITY + PLACE-BURDEN-ON-NĀRĀYAṆA ABHANG ★. Continues 2387's āliyā bhōgāsī asāvē sādara equanimity-theme.

The sanchita-source: bhōga tō na ghaḍē sanchitāvāñchūni — karāvē tē manīm samādhāna★ bhōga doesn't come without sanchita — make samādhāna in the mind ★. Sanchita = accumulated-past-karma. ★ Bhōga (experience, suffering) doesn't-come without-sanchita; make-samādhāna in-the-mind. ★

The don't-blame-others: āṇikām rusāvē na lagē bahutām — āpulyā sanchitāvāñchūniyāmno need to be angry at others — only one's own sanchita. No-need-to-blame-others; only-your-own-sanchita causes-your-bhōga.

★ THE CLOSING ★: Tukā mhaṇē bhāra ghātaliyā varī — hō'īmla kaivārī Nārāyaṇa★ when burden placed above — Nārāyaṇa becomes the protector ★. ★ When-the-burden is-placed-above (on-the-Lord), Nārāyaṇa becomes-the-protector (kaivārī). ★ The two-part-bhakta-strategy: (1) accept-sanchita-as-cause, (2) surrender-burden-to-Nārāyaṇa.

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For someone today

For today: ★ bhōga from one's own sanchita ★; don't grieve, say Gōvinda; don't blame others; ★ place burden above — Nārāyaṇa becomes the protector ★*.

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