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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2477 of 4582

Abhanga 2477

English: Unceasingly attached, drum-roll in courtyard — holding vaikharī in hand, bhāva shows the toy.

The verse

अखंड जडियेल्या तया ढाळ अंगणा । वैखरी धरूनि हातीं भाव दावी खेळणा ॥१॥ निजीं रे निजीं आतां । म्हणोनि परिये दे माता । खेळतां कष्टलासी बाळा तूं रे नेणतां । निजीं रे निजीं आतां ॥ध्रु.॥ खेळतां दुश्चित्ता रे देखोनि तें न्यावें । म्हणोनि सांगें तुज शीघ्र वचन पाळावें॥२॥ आणीक नेली मागें काय जाणों तीं किती । आलासि येथवरि थोरपुण्यें बहुतीं ॥३॥ रिघतां बाहेरि रे पळे घेऊनि कासोटी । ते चि परी जाली स्वामी भेणें रिघें कपाटीं ॥४॥ भरलासे कांप अंगीं सुख नाठवें दुःख । आप पर तें ही नाहीं देहभाव सकळिक ॥५॥ टाकिलें तयावरी खुणें गोविला अंतीं । पावला मायबाप हिरोन घेतला हातीं ॥६॥ घातली धांव नेटें वेगीं पावला त्यासी । हिरोनि नेलीं दोघें आपणयां तीं पासी ॥७॥ टोंकताहे तुजलागीं दिवस लेखूनी काळ । मग नेदी आठवूं रे नेत्रीं घालीं पडळ ॥८॥ तेणें तें चि चित्त राहे होऊनियां निवांत । पावती तुका म्हणे नाहीं विश्वास ते घात ॥९॥

Literal translation

English: Unceasingly attached, drum-roll in courtyard — holding vaikharī in hand, bhāva shows the toy. ★★ Sleep now, sleep now — mother says — playing you got tired, child, in not-knowing ★★. Playing distracted — therefore obey quickly. ★ Many others she took back — you reached here by great puṇya ★. ★ Wanting to go outside — Svāmī by fear enters the cupboard ★. ★★ Trembling in body — no remembrance of sukha-duḥkha — self-other gone — body-feelings gone ★★. ★ Thrown upon, marked at end — mother-father snatched by hand ★. Ran urgently — reached — both snatched to self. ★★ Kāla counts days for you — doesn't let you remember — puts veil over eyes ★★. Thus chitta stays peaceful — Tuka says: no viśvāsa = destruction.

What it means

★★★ THE 9-VERSE BHAKTA-AS-CHILD MOTHER-LORD ALLEGORY ABHANG ★★★. An extended-allegory of the bhakta-as-child-being-protected-by-the-Mother-Lord.

The narrative-frame: A long-allegorical-story of the child-bhakta: - Playing-in-the-courtyard, attached, drum-rolling — bhāva shows the toy - ★★ "Sleep, child" — Mother says — "you got tired playing in not-knowing" ★★ (lullaby-frame) - The-child is-distracted-and-must-obey-quickly - Many other-children she-took-back; you-arrived-here only-by-great-puṇya - Wanting-to-go-outside, the bhakta-as-Svāmī-enters-the-cupboard-out-of-fear - ★★ Body-trembling, sukha-duḥkha-gone, self-other-gone, all-dēha-bhāva-gone ★★ — samādhi-state - Mother-father-snatched the-bhakta by-hand at-the-end - ★★ Kāla counts the days for you, then puts a veil over the eyes ★★ - Chitta-rests-peaceful by-this; ★ those-without-viśvāsa are destroyed ★

The teaching: The bhakta-as-child plays-in-samsāra-distractedly, but-the-Mother-Lord protects and-snatches-at-the-end. Trust (viśvāsa) is the key.

An extended lullaby-allegory — Tukārām using folk-Marathi mother-and-child motif at-length.

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For someone today

For today: ★★ sleep, child, you got tired playing ★★; many others were taken; great puṇya brought you here; samādhi-state — body-feelings gone; ★ mother-father snatch at the end ★; ★ those without viśvāsa are destroyed ★*.

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