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Abhanga 2507

Surrendering life's whole burden to God settles a restless, anxious mind into deep peace and quietly dissolves the ego that clings to one's own name and pride.

When you hand over a worry or burden you cannot control and feel real anxiety settle into peace.

When you notice you have been chasing your own name and reputation instead of something truer.

When you realize the strength or confidence you show the world is not really your own, but comes through you from something greater.

The verse

उद्वेगाची धांव बैसली आसनीं । पडिलें नारायणीं मोटळें हें ॥१॥ सकळ निश्चिंती जाली हा भरवसा । नाहीं गर्भवासा येणें ऐसा ॥ध्रु.॥ आपुलिया नांवें नाहीं आम्हां जिणें । अभिमान तेणें नेला देवें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे चेळें एकाचिया सत्ता । आपुलें मिरवितां पणें ऐसें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Udvēga-run sat in āsana — the bundle fell on Nārāyaṇa. All-niśchinti certainty — no garbha-vāsa in this way. No living-by-own-name — Dēva took away abhimāna. Tuka says: one authority's grace — we walk in such poise.

What it means

THE ALL-CERTAINTY + NO-LIVING-BY-OWN-NAME ABHANG.

The bundle-on-Nārāyaṇa: paḍilē Nārāyaṇīm mōṭaḷē hē — the bundle fell on Nārāyaṇa. The whole-bundle (= life's-burden) has-fallen-on Nārāyaṇa. Surrender-image.

No-own-name: āpuliyā nāmvē nāhīm āmhām jiṇē — abhimāna tēṇē nēlā Dēvē — no living-by-own-name — Dēva took away abhimāna. Not-living-by-our-own-name (= ego); the-Dēva took-away abhimāna. The ego-loss-grace.

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For someone today

Tukaram's restless, anxious running finally comes to rest, and the whole bundle of his life's burden falls onto Narayana. That surrender brings such deep certainty that he feels free from the cycle of birth itself. He no longer lives for his own name and reputation; God has quietly taken that pride away from him. Tuka says he now walks with the poise of someone standing entirely under another's authority and grace.

मराठी: तुकारामांची अस्वस्थ, चिंताग्रस्त धावपळ अखेर शांत होते, आणि जीवनाचे सगळे ओझे नारायणावर जाऊन पडते. या शरणागतीमुळे इतकी खोल निश्चिंती येते की जन्म-मृत्यूच्या फेऱ्यातून सुटल्यासारखे वाटते. आपल्या नावासाठी, प्रतिष्ठेसाठी जगणे आता उरलेले नाही — देवानेच तो अभिमान हळूच काढून घेतला आहे. तुका म्हणतात, आता ते एका अधिकाराच्या कृपेने अशा सहजतेने वावरतात.

Where this applies

When your mind keeps racing with worry and you finally let go and hand the whole burden over to God.
When you feel a deep sense of peace after surrendering a problem you cannot control on your own.
When you notice you have been living to protect your name and reputation rather than for something truer.
When you realize your confidence or strength does not really come from yourself but from something greater working through you.