Abhanga 2557
For today: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine .
The verse
सत्तेचें भोजन समयीं आतुडे । सेवन ही घडे रुचिनेसी ॥१॥ वर्में श्रम नेला जालें एकमय । हृदयस्थीं सोय संग जाला ॥ध्रु.॥ कोथळीस जमा पडिलें संचित । मापल्याचा वित्त नेम जाला ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे धणी ऐसा जालों आतां । करीन ते सत्ता माझी आहे ॥३॥
Literal translation
By authority, meal comes at-time — service-with-rasa happens. Secret-removed exhaustion — became one-with — heart-residing union. Sanchita gathered in pocket — measure became fixed wealth. Tuka says: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine.
What it means
THE AUTHORITY-IS-MINE ABHANG.
The closing-claim: Tukā mhaṇē dhaṇī aiśā jālōm ātām — karīna tē sattā mājhī āhē — now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine. I-have-become-master (dhaṇī) now; whatever-I-do, the-authority is-mine. The bhakta-comes-into-his-inheritance. Compare 2418's mājhī sattā āhē tumhām pāyām varatī (my authority is over your feet) — the bhakta's-bhakti-inheritance grants-him-authority.
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For someone today
For today: now I've become master — what I do, the authority is mine.
Where this applies
- When years of spiritual effort finally settle into an easy, natural sense of provision
- When you feel a hidden exhaustion lift because you're no longer straining against life
- When you've earned enough experience or maturity to trust your own judgment fully
- When you want language for the confidence that comes from finally feeling at home in yourself