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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2931 of 4582

Abhanga 2931

You already know what's right, Pandurang — you know the true way of dharma. So what more is there for me to say? My words are spent; I simply lay them at your feet. All three kinds of karma — what's stored from the past, what's ripening now, and what's being done in this moment — can change in a single instant by your power. Tukaram says: by your sovereign power, you are the one who does everything.

When you keep rehashing an old regret as though nothing about it could ever change.
When you catch yourself trying to instruct or convince God rather than simply trusting him.
When you feel powerless against your circumstances and need a reminder that they can shift.

The verse

जाणसी उचित । पांडुरंगा धर्मनीत ॥१॥ तरि म्यां बोलावें तें काईं । सरे ऐसें तुझे पायीं ॥ध्रु.॥ पालटती क्षणें । संचितप्रारब्धक्रियमाण ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे सत्ता । होसी सकळ करिता ॥३॥

Literal translation

Jāṇasī uchitayou know theuchita(fitting, appropriate); Pāṇḍurangā dharma-nītiPāṇḍurangā, thedharma-nīti(dharmic-method, just-conduct). Tari myām bōlāve te kāītherefore, what should I speak?; sare aise tujhe pāyī(my words are) depleted/spent — thus at your feet. Pālaṭatī kṣaṇe(they) change in (an) instant; samchita-prārabdha-kriyamāṇasamchita, prārabdha, kriyamāṇa (the three karma-types). Tukā says: sattā(by your)sattā(sovereign-power); hōsī sakaḷa karitāyou are thesakaḷa-karitā(all-doer).

What it means

A short you-know-dharma-nīti; karma-changes-by-your-sattā surrender prayer. Jāṇasī uchita — Pāṇḍurangā dharma-nītiyou know the fitting — the dharma-nīti. The opening: the Lord knows-what-is-right; I-don't-need-to-instruct-him.

Tari myām bōlāve te kāī — sare aise tujhe pāyīwhat should I speak — spent thus at your feet. The surrender: all my-words spent at your-feet. (Pairs with 2903 vechiyele vāṇī.)

Pālaṭatī kṣaṇe — samchita-prārabdha-kriyamāṇa(they) change in an instant — samchita, prārabdha, kriyamāṇa. The radical-claim: all three karma-types can be changed-in-an-instant by-the-Lord's-sattā. (Pairs with 2922 all-three-karmas-became-Nārāyaṇa.)

The close: Tukā mhaṇe sattā — hōsī sakaḷa karitāby sattā — you are the all-doer. The bhakti-claim: the Lord is the sakaḷa-karitā (all-doer); karma is-his-to-rearrange.

For someone today

You already know what's right, Pandurang — you know the true way of dharma. So what more is there for me to say? My words are spent; I simply lay them at your feet. All three kinds of karma — what's stored from the past, what's ripening now, and what's being done in this moment — can change in a single instant by your power. Tukaram says: by your sovereign power, you are the one who does everything.

मराठी: तू आधीच जाणतोस काय योग्य आहे, पांडुरंगा — तुला खरा धर्ममार्ग ठाऊक आहे. मग मी आणखी काय बोलू? माझे शब्द संपले आहेत; मी ते फक्त तुझ्या पायांशी ठेवतो. संचित, प्रारब्ध आणि क्रियमाण — हे तिन्ही कर्म, तुझ्या शक्तीने एका क्षणात बदलू शकतात. तुकाराम म्हणतात: तुझ्या सत्तेने, सर्वकाही करणारा तूच आहेस.

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