Abhanga 2741
A clean statement of the foundation. Body, voice, and mind become Viṣṇu-dāsa — kāma-krodha lose their power to bind. Trust in the master's authority — one becomes the enjoyer of all that is his. Make the chitta pure — Gōpāḷa comes and stays there. The three-step structure is precise: (1) the threefold surrender of body, voice, and mind; (2) trust in the master's authority, not in one's own power; (3) a pure chitta, the preparation for indwelling. The three steps produce three results: kāma-krodha no longer bind him, he becomes the enjoyer of all that is the master's, and Gōpāḷa comes to dwell there.
The verse
कायावाचामनें जाला विष्णुदास । काम क्रोध त्यास बाधीतना ॥१॥
विश्वास तो करी स्वामीवरी सत्ता । सकळ भोगिता होय त्याचें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे चत्ति करावें निर्मळ । येऊनि गोपाळ राहे तेथें ॥३॥
Literal translation
Kāyā-vāchā-manē jālā Viṣṇu-dāsa — body-voice-mind has become Viṣṇu-dāsa; kāma-krōdha tyāsa bādhīta nā — kāma-krodha do not bind him. Viśvāsa tō karī svāmīvarī sattā — he who placesviśvāsa(trust) on the master'ssattā(authority); sakaḷa bhōgitā hōya tyāñce — becomes the enjoyer of all that is his. Tukā says: chitta karāve nirmaḷa — make the chittanirmaḷa(pure); yēūni Gōpāḷa rāhe tēthē — Gōpāḷa comes and stays there.
What it means
A clean canonical-statement verse. Kāyā-vāchā-manē jālā Viṣṇu-dāsa — kāma-krōdha tyāsa bādhīta nā — body-voice-mind has become Viṣṇu-dāsa — kāma-krodha do not bind him. The three-fold surrender (body-voice-mind) makes one Viṣṇu-dāsa; once this surrender is real, kāma-krodha lose their binding-power. Not by struggle-against-them, but by surrender-elsewhere.
The dhrūpada: viśvāsa tō karī svāmīvarī sattā — sakaḷa bhōgitā hōya tyāñce — one who places trust on the master's authority — becomes the enjoyer of all that is his. The mechanism: viśvāsa-on-the-master's-sattā (trust on the master's authority) — produces bhōgitā (enjoyer-position) over all that is his (the master's). The trusting-bhakta inherits the master's-domain.
The close: chitta karāve nirmaḷa — yēūni Gōpāḷa rāhe tēthē — make the chitta pure — Gōpāḷa comes and stays there. Nirmaḷa-chitta (pure-chitta) is the precondition; Gōpāḷa-rāhe-tēthē (Gōpāḷa stays there) is the consequence. The verb rāhe (stays, dwells) is not a visit — it is residence.
For someone today
A clean statement of the foundation. Body, voice, and mind become Viṣṇu-dāsa — kāma-krodha lose their power to bind. Trust in the master's authority — one becomes the enjoyer of all that is his. Make the chitta pure — Gōpāḷa comes and stays there. The three-step structure is precise: (1) the threefold surrender of body, voice, and mind; (2) trust in the master's authority, not in one's own power; (3) a pure chitta, the preparation for indwelling. The three steps produce three results: kāma-krodha no longer bind him, he becomes the enjoyer of all that is the master's, and Gōpāḷa comes to dwell there.
मराठी: हा एक स्वच्छ, मूलभूत विधानाचा अभंग आहे. काया-वाचा-मनाने विष्णुदास होणं — यामुळे काम-क्रोधाची बांधून ठेवण्याची शक्ती संपते. स्वामीच्या सत्तेवर विश्वास ठेवणं — यामुळे माणूस त्याच्या सर्वस्वाचा भोक्ता बनतो. चित्त शुद्ध करणं — यामुळे गोपाळ येऊन तिथे राहतो. यातली त्रिसूत्री स्पष्ट आहे: (१) काया-वाचा-मनाचं संपूर्ण समर्पण; (२) स्वतःच्या शक्तीवर नव्हे तर स्वामीच्या सत्तेवर विश्वास; (३) शुद्ध चित्त — जे वास्तव्यासाठीची पूर्वतयारी आहे. या तिन्ही पायऱ्यांमुळे तीन परिणाम घडतात: काम-क्रोध त्याला बांधू शकत नाहीत, तो स्वामीच्या सर्वस्वाचा भोक्ता होतो, आणि गोपाळ तिथे येऊन राहतो.
Where this applies
- When you are fighting anger or desire head-on and that struggle keeps failing
- When you are learning to trust something greater than your own willpower to carry you through
- When you wonder why some people seem free of impulses that constantly trouble everyone else
- When you are working to purify your heart and want to know what that effort actually leads to