Abhanga 2398
For today: many names by love of praise; much sweetness in this rasa; much enduring; many good days; bhakti is abundance on all sides .
The verse
बहु नांवें ठेविलीं स्तुतीचे आवडी । बहुत या गोडी आली रसा ॥१॥ बहु सोसें सेवन केलें बहुवस । बहु आला दिस गोमट्याचा ॥ध्रु.॥ बहुतां पुरला बहुतां उरला । बहुतांचा केला बहु नट ॥२॥ बहु तुका जाला निकट वृत्ती । बहु काकुलती येऊनियां॥३॥
Literal translation
Many names placed by love of praise — much sweetness came in this rasa. Much enduring done — many good days came. Fulfilled-for-many, remained-for-many — many made many forms. Tukā became close in vṛtti — coming much-pleading.
What it means
THE BAHU-ANAPHORA ABHANG — the word bahu (much, many) repeats throughout, structuring the abhang as a litany of many-fold abundance.
Many-fold abundance: every line counts-the-many — many-names, much-sweetness, much-enduring, many-good-days, many-fulfilled, many-forms, much-closeness, much-pleading. The bhakta's-experience is-overflowing on all-fronts — Name, rasa, days, fellow-bhaktas, divine-forms.
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For someone today
For today: many names by love of praise; much sweetness in this rasa; much enduring; many good days; bhakti is abundance on all sides .
Where this applies
- When you feel like your devotion or effort hasn't amounted to much, and need reminding that quiet persistence generates abundance over time.
- When you're keeping score of what you've received versus given, and forget that sweetness builds up from many small acts repeated over years.
- When you're new to a spiritual practice and wonder if the rewards are even real, since here they are named plainly: sweetness, closeness, many good days.
- When you look back on years of steady practice and want words for how much it actually gave you.