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Abhanga 2450

A love so complete that it fills the eyes and heart makes everything else in ordinary life feel less sweet by comparison.

When you cannot take your eyes off someone or something you deeply love

When you notice that other pleasures have stopped satisfying you the way they used to

When you are aching to see someone's face again and the wait feels like too much

The verse

सांवळें रूपडें चोरटें चित्ताचें । उभें पंढरीचे विटेवरी ॥१॥ डोळियांची धणी पाहातां न पुरे । तया लागीं झुरे मन माझें ॥ध्रु.॥ आन गोड कांहीं न लगे संसारीं । राहिले अंतरीं पाय तुझे ॥२॥ प्राण रिघों पाहे कुडी हे सांडुनी । श्रीमुख नयनीं न देखतां ॥३॥ चित्त मोहियेलें नंदाच्या नंदनें । तुका म्हणे येणें गरुडध्वजें ॥४॥

Literal translation

Dark beautiful form, chitta-thief — stands on Pandharī's brick. Eyes' fill doesn't suffice — my mind yearns for it. Nothing else sweet in samsāra — your feet remain in the inner-being. Prāṇa wants to leave the body — without seeing the śrī-mukha. Chitta enchanted by Nanda's-son — Tuka says: by this Garuḍa-bannered.

What it means

THE DARK-BEAUTIFUL-CHITTA-THIEF-ON-THE-BRICK ABHANG. One of Tukārām's most-celebrated darśana-images.

THE OPENING: sāmvaḷē rūpaḍē chōraṭē chittāchē — ubhē Paṇḍharīchē viṭēvarī — dark beautiful form, chitta-thief — stands on Pandharī's brick. Sāmvaḷē = dark-complexioned. Rūpaḍē = little-form, sweet-form. Chōraṭē chittāchē = thief of the chitta (mind-heart). Viṭēvarī = on the brick. Dark, beautiful-little-form, the chitta-thief — stands on-Pandharī's-brick. A celebrated darśana-description: the Viṭhṭhal-image as both dark-and-thief-of-hearts.

The yearning: ḍōḷiyāñchī dhaṇī pāhātām na purē — tayā lāgīm jhurē mana mājhē — eyes' fill doesn't suffice — my mind yearns. Eyes-can't-be-satisfied; mind-yearns.

The prāṇa-departure: prāṇa righōm pāhē kuḍī hē sāṇḍunī — śrī-mukha nayanīm na dēkhatām — prāṇa wants to leave the body — without seeing śrī-mukha. Without-seeing-the-śrī-mukha (sacred-face), the prāṇa wants-to-leave-the-body.

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For someone today

For today: dark beautiful chitta-thief on the brick; eyes can't be filled; nothing sweet in samsāra; prāṇa wants to leave without darshan.

Where this applies

When you finally see or experience something so beautiful that ordinary pleasures stop satisfying you
When you miss someone so much that daily life feels flat without them
When you are waiting to see a person you love and the waiting itself feels unbearable
When you realize your deepest longing has quietly reordered what you care about

Bhakti Pāṇḍuranga / Viṭhṭhal