Abhanga 2476
Nothing is too impossible or too inauspicious for God to transform, so bring your faults to him instead of waiting until you feel worthy.
The verse
तुज करितां होय ऐसें कांहीं नाहीं । डोंगराची राईं रंक राणा ॥१॥ अशुभाचें शुभ करितां तुज कांही । अवघड नाहीं पांडुरंगा ॥ध्रु.॥ सोळा सहजर नारी ब्रम्हचारी कैसा । निराहारी दुर्वासा नवल नव्हे ॥२॥ पंचभ्रतार द्रौपदी सती । करितां पितृशांती पुण्य धर्मा ॥३॥ दशरथा पातकें ब्रम्हहत्ये ऐसीं । नवल त्याचे कुशीं जन्म तुझा ॥४॥ मुनेश्वरा नाहीं दोष अनुमात्र । भांडवितां सुत्र वध होती ॥५॥ तुका म्हणे माझे दोष ते कायी । सरता तुझा पायीं जालों देवा ॥६॥
Literal translation
Nothing impossible for you — mountain to mustard-seed, king to pauper. Turning inauspicious into auspicious — not hard for you, Pāṇḍurangā. 16,000 wives — still Brahmacāri — feeding Durvāsa fastless — not surprising. Five-husbands' Draupadī as satī — doing pitṛ-śānti puṇya-dharma. Daśaratha's pāpas like brahma-hatyā — surprising you born in his womb. Munēśvara has no fault — when brought-forth, killings happen. Tuka says: what are my pāpas — I'm filling at your feet, Dēvā.
What it means
THE LORD-MAKES-INAUSPICIOUS-AUSPICIOUS + MULTIPLE PURĀṆIC-PARADOXES ABHANG. 6-verse Purāṇic-catechism.
The series of-paradoxes — each-example shows Kṛṣṇa's-power to-make-the-impossible-or-inauspicious-into-its-opposite:
- Kṛṣṇa as Brahmacāri-with-16,000-wives — paradoxical-marital-status
- Kṛṣṇa feeding-Durvāsa-fastless — making-the-hungry-rishi-feel-fed without-food (Mahābhārata episode)
- Pañca-bhratāra Draupadī as satī — five-husband-wife still pati-vratā
- Daśaratha's-brahma-hatyā-pāpas → still Rāma-as-son — pāpī-becomes-divinely-blessed
- Munēśvara has-no-fault — but Tukārām notes-killings-when-brought-forth
The closing-bhakti-claim: Tukā mhaṇē mājhē dōṣa tē kāyī — saratā tujhā pāyīm jālōm Dēvā — what are my pāpas — I'm filling at your feet, Dēvā. If you-could-resolve all-these-Purāṇic-paradoxes, my-pāpas are-nothing. Tukārām's tour-of-Purāṇic-precedents to-claim that-the-Lord-can-clear-his-own-pāpas.
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For someone today
For today: nothing impossible for you; Kṛṣṇa Brahmacāri with 16,000 wives ; Draupadī-pañca-bhratāra-still-satī ; Daśaratha's pāpas didn't stop Rāma's birth ; what are my pāpas at your feet .
Where this applies
- When you feel too flawed or sinful to approach God and think you must fix yourself first
- When you're facing a situation that looks completely impossible to resolve
- When you doubt that something as tangled or contradictory as your own past could ever be made right
- When you need reassurance that surrendering your mistakes, rather than hiding them, is the way forward