Abhanga 2601
Resolve has Nārāyaṇa as its lovely foundation; everyone's desire is fulfilled, heavy body-ness dissolves. Excellent fame in both worlds, when Deva dwells in the heart. Tukā: jīva is satisfied — no woe comes near.
The verse
संकल्पासी अधिष्ठान । नारायण गोमटें ॥१॥
अवघियांचें पुरे कोड । फिडे जड देहत्व ॥ध्रु.॥
उभय लोकीं उत्तम कीर्ति । देव चित्तीं राहिलिया ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे जीव धाय । नये हाय जवळी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Resolve has Nārāyaṇa as its lovely foundation. Everyone's desire is fulfilled; the heavy body-ness dissolves. Excellent fame in both worlds — when Deva has stayed in the heart. Tukā says: the jīva is satisfied; no woe comes near.
What it means
The verse builds a careful theology of samkalpa (resolve, resolution, intention). Samkalpāsī adhiṣṭhāna — Nārāyaṇa gōmaṭē — resolve has its lovely foundation in Nārāyaṇa. Adhiṣṭhāna is the ground, the support, the basis. The bhakti claim is that real resolutions are not held up by willpower; they rest on the Lord-as-foundation. From this foundation: avaghiyāñchēm purē kōḍa — fiḍē jaḍa dēhatva — everyone's longing is fulfilled, the heavy body-ness dissolves. Jaḍa-dēhatva (heavy-body-ness) is the specific oppression of feeling one's body as a weight; it dissolves when the adhiṣṭhāna is right. The middle verse extends the claim: ubhaya lōkīm uttama kīrti — Deva chittīm rāhiliyā — excellent fame in both worlds, when Deva has remained in the heart. Fame here is not vanity-fame; it is the well-namedness that follows naturally from a settled heart. The close is the somatic confirmation: jīva dhāya — nayē hāya javaḷī — the jīva is satisfied (dhāya = is well-fed, runs swiftly, has its fill), no hāya (woe, sigh) comes near.
For someone today
You may have noticed that your resolutions held by willpower alone tend to collapse, while resolutions anchored to something larger than yourself hold longer and dissolve heaviness rather than producing more. This verse names the principle: samkalpa needs an adhiṣṭhāna. Find the foundation under your most important intentions. If the foundation is right, the heavy body-ness lifts on its own; satisfaction arrives without strain; hāya — sighing, woe, lament — does not come close. The work is less about more effort and more about better foundation.
Where this applies
- A resolution that keeps failing because it has no foundation deeper than willpower
- The somatic experience of body-as-heaviness lifting when the heart actually settles
- Realizing that genuine fame-in-both-worlds is a side-effect, not a target
- Days when no woe comes near and noticing the foundation behind that