Abhanga 2458
The verse
ऐसें भाग्य कई लाहाता होईंन । अवघें देखें जन ब्रम्हरूप ॥१॥ मग तया सुखा अंत नाहीं पार । आनंदें सागर हेलावती ॥ध्रु.॥ शांति क्षमा दया मूर्तिमंत अंगीं । परावृत्त संगीं कामादिकां ॥२॥ विवेकासहित वैराग्याचें बळ । धग्धगितोज्ज्वाळ अग्नि जैसा ॥३॥ भक्ती नवविधा भावशुद्ध बरी । अळंकारावरी मुगुटमणि ॥४॥ तुका म्हणे माझी पुरवी वासना । कोण नारायणा तुजविण ॥५॥
Literal translation
English: ★★ When will I attain such fortune — see all people as brahma-rūpa ★★. Then that sukha has no end — ānanda-ocean rolls. Peace-forgiveness-compassion embodied in body — turning back from kāma etc. Strength of vairāgya with viveka — like blazing fire. ★★ Nine-fold bhakti with pure bhāva — crown-jewel on the ornaments ★★. Tuka says: fulfill my desire — who else, Nārāyaṇā, but you.
What it means
★★ THE SEE-ALL-AS-BRAHMA-RŪPA + 9-FOLD-BHAKTI-CROWN ABHANG ★★. One of Tukārām's most-celebrated bhakti-pinnacle abhangs.
★★ THE OPENING ASPIRATION ★★: aiśē bhāgya ka'ī lāhātā hō'īmna — avaghē dēkhē jana brahma-rūpa — ★★ when will I attain such fortune — see all people as brahma-rūpa ★★. ★★ When will-I-attain such-fortune — that I see all-people as brahma-rūpa? ★★ The non-dual perception as bhakti's-ultimate-fruit.
★★ THE 9-FOLD-BHAKTI-AS-CROWN-JEWEL ★★: bhakti navavidhā bhāva-śuddha barī — aḷankārāvarī mukuṭa-maṇi — ★★ nine-fold bhakti with pure bhāva — crown-jewel on the ornaments ★★. ★★ Nine-fold bhakti (nava-vidhā) with-pure-bhāva — is-the-crown-jewel atop-all-ornaments. ★★ Reference to the Bhāgavata Purāṇa 7.5.23: śravaṇaṃ kīrtanaṃ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṃ pāda-sevanam — archanaṃ vandanaṃ dāsyaṃ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam. The nine modes of bhakti are the crown-jewel atop all other virtues.
The fire-of-vairāgya: vivēkāsahita vairāgyāchē baḷa — dhagadhagitōjjvāḷa agni jaisā — strength of vairāgya with viveka — like blazing fire. Vairāgya-with-viveka burns-bright like-fire.
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For someone today
For today: ★★ when will I see all people as brahma-rūpa ★★; peace-forgiveness-compassion embodied; vairāgya-with-viveka like fire; ★★ nine-fold bhakti is the crown-jewel ★★*.
Where this applies
- See-all-people-as-brahma-rūpa. Avaghē-dēkhē-jana-brahma-rūpa.
- Nine-fold-bhakti-crown-jewel-of-ornaments. Bhakti-navavidhā-aḷankārāvarī-mukuṭa-maṇi.