Abhanga 2924
The source of the whole world is Vitthal himself, who is beyond scripture and argument, yet is both ungraspable by the mind and present everywhere at once.
The verse
जयापासोनि सकळ । महीमंडळ जालें ॥१॥
तो एक पंढरीचा राणा । नये श्रुती अनुमाना ॥ध्रु.॥
विवादती जयासाठीं । जगजेटी तो विठ्ठल ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे तो आकळ । आहे सकळव्यापक ॥३॥
Literal translation
Jayāpāsōnī sakaḷa — (from him) from whom all; mahī-maṇḍala jāle — themahī-maṇḍala(earth-circle) came into being. Tō eka Pandharīñcā rāṇā — that one is therāṇā(king) of Paṇḍharī; nye śrutī anumānā — (he) does not come intośruti(Vedas) oranumāna(inference). Vivādatī jayāsāṭī — (those) for whom they dispute (in philosophy); Jagajeṭhī tō Viṭhṭhala — thatJagajeṭhī(world-conqueror) is Viṭṭhal. Tukā says: tō ākaḷa — he isākaḷa(ungraspable); āhe sakaḷa-vyāpaka — (yet) is all-pervading (sakaḷa-vyāpaka).
What it means
A short canonical Viṭṭhal-origin verse. Jayāpāsōnī sakaḷa — mahī-maṇḍala jāle — from whom all — the earth-circle came into being. The cosmological-claim: the entire mahī-maṇḍala (world-circle) comes from him.
Tō eka Pandharīñcā rāṇā — nye śrutī anumānā — that one is Paṇḍharī's king — doesn't come into Vedas or inference. The radical claim: the supreme-cosmological-source is Paṇḍharī's-king (Viṭṭhal); he is beyond Vedas and inference.
Vivādatī jayāsāṭī — Jagajeṭhī tō Viṭhṭhala — for whom they dispute (in philosophy) — that Jagajeṭhī is Viṭṭhal. The Vārkarī-claim: the cosmic-disputed-Lord is precisely Viṭṭhal. Pairs with 2925 (formless-Viṭṭhal-everywhere).
The close: Tukā mhaṇe tō ākaḷa — āhe sakaḷa-vyāpaka — he is ungraspable — yet all-pervading. The paradox: ungraspable AND all-pervading. (Compare 2925 no-rūpa-no-nāma-yet-everywhere.)
For someone today
Everything in this whole world came into being from him, Tukaram says. He is the king of Pandhari, and he cannot be reached through the Vedas or through pure logic and inference. The one philosophers argue endlessly about, the conqueror of the world they debate — that very one is Vitthal. Tukaram says he can never be fully grasped by the mind, and yet he is present everywhere, all at once.
मराठी: या संपूर्ण जगाची उत्पत्ती त्याच्यापासूनच झाली आहे, तुकाराम म्हणतात. तो पंढरीचा राणा आहे, आणि तो वेद किंवा नुसत्या तर्काने कळत नाही. ज्याच्याबद्दल तत्त्वज्ञ सतत वादविवाद करतात, तो जगजेठी — तोच विठ्ठल आहे. तुकाराम म्हणतात की तो मनाला कधीच पूर्णपणे आकळत नाही, आणि तरीही तो सर्वत्र, एकाच वेळी व्यापून आहे.
Where this applies
- When you get lost trying to intellectually prove God's existence through scripture or logic alone
- When religious scholars or friends argue endlessly about the nature of the ultimate reality
- When you feel God is too abstract and far away to actually reach
- When you want a simple, direct way to point to the divine instead of an elaborate philosophical system