संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2576 of 4582
Abhanga 2576
Once the self rests fully in itself, comparison and separateness fall away, and the burden of striving lifts because everything you sought turns out to already be your own.
When you catch yourself endlessly comparing your progress or worth to someone else's
When you assume real division exists between things that, looked at closely, share the same root
When you feel weighed down by striving and need to rest in what is already yours
The verse
कोणापाशीं द्यावें माप । आपीं आप राहिलें ॥१॥ कासयाची भरोवरी । काय दुरी जवळी ॥ध्रु.॥ एकें दाखविले दाहा। फांटा पाहा पुसून ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे सरलें वोझें । आतां माझें सकळ ॥३॥
Literal translation
To whom give measure — self in self remained. What to compare — what far, what near. One showed ten — see fork by asking. Tuka says: burden lifted — now all is mine.
What it means
THE SELF-IN-SELF-REMAINED ABHANG.
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For someone today
For today: self in self remained — burden lifted, all is mine.
Where this applies
- When you catch yourself endlessly comparing your progress or worth to someone else's
- When you feel torn between wanting closeness to something and fearing distance from it
- When you assume differences between people or ideas are more real than they actually are
- When you are carrying a heavy sense of striving and need permission to rest in what already belongs to you