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Abhanga 2397

Keep pleading without embarrassment, because the treasure that ends your want is already there, and wholehearted devotion does not wait for the right time.

When you hesitate to ask for help again simply because you already asked once before

When you're tempted to wait for a better or more convenient moment instead of acting now

When your own mind resists something you know you need to do, and you have to push past that resistance

The verse

म्हणऊनि काकुळती । येतों पुढतों पुढती । तुम्हां असे हातीं । कमळापती भांडार ॥१॥ फेडूं आलेती दरद्रि । तरी न लगे उशीर । पुरे अभयंकर । ठाया ठाव रंकाशी ॥ध्रु.॥ कोठें न घली धांव । याजसाठीं तजिली हांव । घेऊं नेदी वाव । मना केला विरोध ॥२॥ कारणांच्या गुणें । वेळ काळ तोही नेणें । तुमच्या कीर्तनें । तुका तुम्हां जागवी ॥३॥

Literal translation

Therefore I come pleading repeatedly — in your hands, Husband-of-Kamalā, is the treasure. Come to remove poverty — no delay needed — sufficient fearless-giver — place-to-place for the poor. Nowhere to run — for this I forsook desire — don't let it take refuge — opposed the mind. By virtue of cause — knows not time or kāla — by your kīrtana — Tukā wakes you.

What it means

KAMALĀ-PATĪ HOLDS THE TREASURE + KĪRTANA WAKES THE LORD ABHANG. 4-verse longer-format.

The Kamalā-patī treasure: tumhām asē hātīm Kamaḷā-patī bhāṇḍāra — in your hands, Husband-of-Kamalā, is the treasure. In-your-hands (O Kamalā-patī = Lakṣmī's-husband = Viṣṇu/Viṭhṭhal), is-the-treasure (bhāṇḍāra).

The poverty-removal: phēḍūm ālētī daridri — tarī na lagē uśīra — come to remove poverty — no delay needed. You-come to-remove-poverty; no-delay needed.

THE FAMOUS KĪRTANA-WAKES-THE-LORD: tumchyā kīrtanē — Tukā tumhām jāgavī — by your kīrtana — Tukā wakes you. By-your-kīrtana, Tukā wakes-you. The bhakta's-kīrtana wakes-the-Lord — a reversal-of-roles: bhakta-as-the-one-who-rouses-the-Divine.

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For someone today

For today: I come pleading repeatedly; Kamalā-patī holds the treasure ; remove poverty without delay; opposed the mind; by your kīrtana — I, Tukā, wake you .

Where this applies

When you feel embarrassed about asking for help more than once and are tempted to just stop trying
When you're waiting for the perfect moment to begin a practice or ask for what you truly need
When your own doubts or second thoughts keep pulling you away from something you've already committed to
When you feel like you're lacking or going without, and wonder whether real help is actually available to you

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