Abhanga 2712
The verse offers the language for a sober recognition that I have been let go. The omens already tell us gain or loss; the mind has mounted fear; love is known in the actual embrace, not in absence; I have been let go — I see this clearly now. The honest acknowledgment without melodrama is the verse's mode. Mōkalilē (let go) does not require accusation; the bhakta simply recognizes. The line about love being known in embrace is a useful test: when the embrace is absent, the love one was relying on cannot be known; one is in a state of mounted fear, and who has trust? — the rhetorical question with no obvious answer.
The verse
शकुनानें लाभ हानि । येथूनि च कळतसे ॥१॥
भयारूढ जालें मन । आतां कोण विश्वास ॥ध्रु.॥
प्रीत कळे आलिंगनीं । संपादनीं अत्यंत ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे मोकलिलें । कळों आलें बरवें हें ॥३॥
Literal translation
By the śakuna (omen, sign), gain or loss — is known from here itself. The mind has become bhayārūḍha (mounted with fear); now who has viśvāsa (trust)? Love is known in ālingana (embrace); its sampādana (fulfillment) is atyanta (most-intense). Tukā says: I have been mōkalilē (let-go, released); this has kaḷō ālē baravē — come to be understood well.
What it means
A sober observational verse. Śakunānē lābha hāni — yēthūnī chi kaḷatasē — by the omen, gain or loss is known from here (itself). Śakuna (omens, signs) — the bhakta reads the signs and recognizes the trajectory. Yēthūnī chi — from here itself, from this very moment — the future-outcome is already-visible in the present-signs.
The dhrūpada: bhayārūḍha jālē mana — ātām kōṇa viśvāsa — the mind has mounted fear; now who has trust? The shift from trust to fear-mounted-state is named honestly. Bhayārūḍha — mounted on fear, ridden by fear — once fear has mounted the mind, trust becomes hard to maintain.
The second verse names the experiential-test: prīta kaḷē ālinganī — sampādanī atyanta — love is known in embrace; its fulfillment is most-intense. Love is not theoretical; it is known in the embrace. The sampādana (fulfillment) is the intensity-of-the-actual-meeting.
The close: mōkalilē — kaḷō ālē baravē hē — I have been let-go; this has come to be understood well. Mōkalilē — released, let-go, abandoned — the sober recognition. Kaḷō ālē baravē hē — this has come to be understood well — the understanding is clear, the baravē (well) carries a wry-acknowledgment. The bhakta accepts: I have been let go; I see this clearly now.
For someone today
The verse offers the language for a sober recognition that I have been let go. The omens already tell us gain or loss; the mind has mounted fear; love is known in the actual embrace, not in absence; I have been let go — I see this clearly now. The honest acknowledgment without melodrama is the verse's mode. Mōkalilē (let go) does not require accusation; the bhakta simply recognizes. The line about love being known in embrace is a useful test: when the embrace is absent, the love one was relying on cannot be known; one is in a state of mounted fear, and who has trust? — the rhetorical question with no obvious answer.
मराठी: हा अभंग एका सौम्य, गंभीर जाणिवेची भाषा देतो — 'मला सोडून दिलं गेलं आहे' हे स्वीकारण्याची. शकुनांवरूनच फायदा-तोटा आधीच कळतो; मन भीतीने भारावलं आहे; प्रेम प्रत्यक्ष आलिंगनात कळतं, अनुपस्थितीत नाही; मला सोडून दिलं गेलं आहे — हे आता मला स्पष्ट दिसतं आहे. कुठलाही अभिनिवेश न करता, प्रामाणिकपणे हे मान्य करणं हाच या अभंगाचा सूर आहे. 'मोकलिले' (सोडून दिलेले) यासाठी आरोपाची गरज नाही; भक्त फक्त हे ओळखतो. 'प्रेम आलिंगनात कळतं' ही ओळ एक उपयुक्त कसोटी आहे: जेव्हा आलिंगन नसतं, तेव्हा ज्या प्रेमावर आपण अवलंबून होतो ते कळू शकत नाही; मन भीतीने भारावलेलं असतं, आणि मग विश्वास कोणावर ठेवायचा? — या प्रश्नाचं स्पष्ट उत्तर नाही.
Where this applies
- The sober I-have-been-let-go recognition without melodrama
- Love is known in the embrace — the experiential test of presence
- Reading the omens of the trajectory honestly
- Bhayārūḍha jālē mana — when fear has mounted the mind, trust is hard