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Abhanga 2527

Ask directly to be freed from crushing burden, and once you've reached your lowest point, let go of the path that keeps leading to more ruin.

When you feel worn down by burdens that never let up.

When you envy others' power to fix their troubles while you feel stuck.

When you keep returning to a path that only breaks you down further.

The verse

स्वामित्वाचीं वर्में असोनि जवळी । वाहों जावें मोळी गुणांसवें ॥१॥ काबाडापासूनि सोडवा दातारा । कांहीं नका भारा पात्र करूं ॥ध्रु.॥ धनवंत्याचिये अंगीं सत्ताबळ । व्याधि तो सकळ तोडावया ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे आलें मोड्यासी कोंपट । सांडव्याची वाट विसरावी ॥३॥

Literal translation

With Svāmī's secrets near — go carrying bundle with guṇas. Free me from drudgery, Dātāra — don't make me-vessel for burden. The wealthy have sattā-bala — to break all vyādhi. Tuka says: broken-one's hut came — forget the demolition-path.

What it means

THE FREE-FROM-DRUDGERY-DĀTĀRA ABHANG.

The plea: kābāḍāpāsūni sōḍavā Dātārā — kāmhīm nakā bhārā pātra karūm — free me from drudgery, Dātāra — don't make me-vessel for burden. Free-me from-drudgery (kābāḍa = hard labor); don't-make-me a vessel-for-burden. A direct request to-be-spared-from-laborious-life.

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For someone today

For today: free me from drudgery — don't make me a burden-vessel.

Where this applies

When you're exhausted from carrying burdens that never seem to end.
When you feel powerless compared to people who can simply buy or arrange their way out of trouble.
When you're tempted to keep pushing down a path that keeps hurting you.
When you've hit a low point and need to just ask directly for relief instead of struggling alone.

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