Abhanga 2922
All three kinds of karma, past, ripening, and present, have become God himself, so nothing can truly bind you, and life is Hari's own play within you.
The verse
संचित प्रारब्ध क्रियमाण । अवघा जाला नारायण ॥१॥
नाहीं आम्हांसी संबंधु । जरा मरण कांहीं बाधु ॥ध्रु.॥
द्वैताद्वैतभावें । अवघें व्यापियेलें देवें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे हरि । आम्हांमाजी क्रीडा करी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Samchita prārabdha kriyamāṇa — samchita(accumulated-karma),prārabdha(currently-fruiting-karma),kriyamāṇa(currently-being-performed-karma); avaghā jālā Nārāyaṇa — all (three) have become Nārāyaṇa. Nāhī āmhāmsī sambandhu — (there is) nosambandhu(connection, binding) for us; jarā maraṇa kāmhī bādhū — (neither)jarā(old-age) (nor)maraṇa(death) (provides) anybādhā(bondage, obstruction). Dvaita-advaita-bhāve — bydvaita-advaita-bhāva(the mode of both dual and non-dual); avaghe vyāpiyele Deve — Deva has pervaded everything. Tukā says: Hari — (O) Hari; āmhām-māji krīḍā karī — does (his)krīḍā(play) within us.
What it means
THE canonical 3-verse karma-non-dual claim verse. The three-fold-karma — samchita (the stored-karma-account from past lives), prārabdha (the karma currently-fruiting in this life), and kriyamāṇa (the karma being-performed-now) — is the comprehensive Hindu-karma framework.
Verse 1: Samchita prārabdha kriyamāṇa — avaghā jālā Nārāyaṇa — samchita, prārabdha, kriyamāṇa — all have become Nārāyaṇa. The radical-claim: all-three-types-of-karma have become Nārāyaṇa — i.e., the karma-substance-itself has become-the-Lord. There is no-longer-a-binding-substance.
Dhrūpada: Nāhī āmhāmsī sambandhu — jarā maraṇa kāmhī bādhū — no connection for us — jarā-maraṇa, no bondage. Consequence: no karma-binding; no jarā-maraṇa-obstruction.
Verse 2: Dvaita-advaita-bhāve — avaghe vyāpiyele Deve — by dvaita-advaita-bhāva — Deva has pervaded everything. The radical-formulation: both dual and non-dual modes of consideration — Deva is in both. Tukārām doesn't-pick-one; he-allows-both.
Close: Tukā mhaṇe Hari — āmhām-māji krīḍā karī — Hari plays within us. The bhakti-position: the apparent-action-here is Hari's krīḍā (play). (Pairs with 2917 no-bheda-sahaja-vinōda.)
For someone today
Tukaram makes a radical claim: all three kinds of karma — what you've stored up from the past, what's ripening for you now, and what you're doing in this very moment — have all become Narayana himself. Because of this, nothing truly binds you anymore; not even old age or death can hold you back. God pervades everything, Tukaram says, showing up equally whether you experience the world as separate from the divine or as one with it. In the end, he says, it is Hari who is simply playing within us.
मराठी: तुकाराम एक धाडसी विधान करतात: संचित, प्रारब्ध आणि क्रियमाण — म्हणजे भूतकाळातील साठलेले कर्म, आता फळाला येणारे कर्म, आणि याक्षणी करत असलेले कर्म — हे तिन्ही नारायणच बनले आहेत. त्यामुळे आता खरे तर काहीही तुम्हाला बांधून ठेवू शकत नाही; अगदी म्हातारपण किंवा मृत्यूसुद्धा नाही. देव सर्वत्र व्यापून आहे, तुकाराम म्हणतात, तुम्ही जग द्वैतरूपात पाहा किंवा अद्वैतरूपात — दोन्हीत तो सारखाच प्रकट होतो. शेवटी ते म्हणतात, हरीच आपल्यामध्ये लीला करत आहे.
Where this applies
- THE canonical all-three-karmas became Nārāyaṇa non-dual claim
- Recognizing jarā-maraṇa-no-longer-binds when all-karma is Nārāyaṇa
- Dvaita-advaita-bhāve; all-pervaded-by-Deva radical-claim
- Pairs with 2917 (non-dual identification), 2837 (brahmāṇḍa-Paṇḍharī)