Abhanga 2621
We love taking the Name — the Father is pleased too. Both one-minded — love has increased. We shine in near-dwelling — nothing-else is seen. Tukā: Pāṇḍurange, all the parts have cooled.
The verse
आम्हां आवडे नाम घेतां । तो ही पिता संतोषे ॥१॥
उभयतां एकचित्त । तरी प्रीत वाढली ॥ध्रु.॥
आम्ही शोभों निकटवासें। अनारिसें न दिसे ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे पांडुरंगे । अवघीं अंगें निवालीं॥३॥
Literal translation
We love taking the Name; the Father too is pleased. Both one-minded — so love has increased. We shine by near-dwelling; nothing-else is seen. Tukā says: Pāṇḍurange — all the parts have cooled.
What it means
A small symbiosis-verse. Āmhām āvaḍē nāma ghētām — tō hī pitā santōṣē — we love taking the Name; he too — the Father — is pleased. The mutuality is explicit. The bhakta loves the practice; the Father enjoys being the object of the practice. Tō hī — he too — names the symmetry.
The dhrūpada: ubhayatām ēka-chitta — tarī prīta vāḍhalī — both one-minded (ēka-chitta) — therefore love has grown. The condition is ēka-chitta — single-attention between the two sides. The bhakti claim is that mutual one-mindedness causes prīti to increase — love is generative, not finite.
The second verse: āmhī śōbhōm nikaṭa-vāsēm — anārisē na disē — we shine by near-dwelling (nikaṭa-vāsa = close-dwelling); nothing-else (anārisē) is seen. The śōbhōm (shine, become beautiful) is the effect of proximity; the anārisē na disē (nothing-other appears) is the visual-field consequence.
The close is somatic: Pāṇḍurangē — avaghīm angē nivālīm — Pāṇḍurange — all the parts have cooled. Nivālī (cooled, settled, calmed) — Tukārām's favored somatic-completion word. When the body's angē (parts, limbs) have all cooled, the practice has landed.
For someone today
The verse names a structural feature of any genuinely mutual practice: both sides one-minded, both sides enjoying, and therefore love grows. If you find a practice where this symmetry holds — your taking-the-name, the Lord's pleasure at being named — the practice will be self-sustaining. The signs to look for: near-dwelling shines you; nothing-else is seen; all-parts have cooled. If the somatic-cooling has not happened, the ēka-chitta (one-minded mutuality) is incomplete.
मराठी: हा अभंग खऱ्याखुऱ्या परस्पर साधनेचे एक महत्त्वाचे वैशिष्ट्य सांगतो — दोन्ही बाजू एकचित्त असतात, दोन्ही बाजूंना आनंद मिळतो, आणि त्यामुळेच प्रेम वाढते. जर तुम्हाला अशी साधना सापडली जिथे ही समानता आहे — तुम्ही नाम घेता आणि त्यातून देवालाही आनंद होतो — तर ती साधना स्वतःच टिकून राहते. याची लक्षणे अशी — जवळीक तुम्हाला शोभून दिसते; दुसरे काहीच दिसत नाही; सगळे अंग शांत, थंड होतात. जर हे शारीरिक शांतवणे घडले नसेल, तर ती एकचित्त एकात्मता अजून पूर्ण झालेली नाही.
Where this applies
- Daily Name-practice that has become a mutual symbiosis
- Any relational pattern that depends on mutual one-mindedness
- The angē-nivālī somatic-test for whether practice has landed
- Nikaṭa-vāsa — near-dwelling — as the operative bhakti condition