Abhanga 2934
THE canonical Hari-bhakta's-house: Vedānta-carries-water; pebbles-become-Chintāmaṇi image. On all sides, Hari has become the helper-friend — for him, the wet-courtyard's vines become wish-fulfilling-vines. While walking the foot-paths naturally — the pebbles become equal-to Chintāmaṇi. Tukā just-speaks — at his house, Vedānta carries water.
The verse
सर्वपक्षीं हरि साहेसखा जाला । ओल्या अंगणीच्या कल्पलता त्याला ॥१॥
सहजचाली चालतां पायवाटे । चिंतामणींसमान होती गोटे ॥२॥
तुका तरी सहज बोले वाणी । त्याचे घरीं वेदांत वाहे पाणी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Sarva-pakṣī Hari sāhe-sakhā jālā — on all sides, Hari has become the sāhe-sakhā (helper-friend, companion-helper); ōlyā angaṇīñcyā kalpa-latā tyālā — for him — the ōlyā angaṇīñcyā (wet courtyard's) kalpa-latā (wish-fulfilling vines). Sahaja-chālī chālatām pāyavāṭe — while walking on pāyavāṭa (footpath) with sahaja-chālī (natural walk); Chintāmaṇī-samāna hōtī gōṭe — the gōṭe (pebbles, stones) become equal-to Chintāmaṇi (the wish-fulfilling-jewel). Tukā tarī sahaja bōle vāṇī — Tukā just-speaks-the-words (naturally); tyāñce gharī Vedānta vāhe pāṇī — at his (the Hari-bhakta's) house, Vedānta carries water.
What it means
A 3-verse striking Hari-bhakta's-house: ordinary-things-become-wish-fulfilling image-verse.
Verse 1: Sarva-pakṣī Hari sāhe-sakhā jālā — ōlyā angaṇīñcyā kalpa-latā tyālā — on all sides, Hari has become the helper-friend — for him, the wet-courtyard's vines become wish-fulfilling-vines. The Hari-bhakta has the Lord-as-friend on all-sides; for him, even-the-ordinary-courtyard-vines become kalpa-latā (wish-fulfilling-vines, a-mythical-celestial-plant that-grants-wishes).
Verse 2: Sahaja-chālī chālatām pāyavāṭe — Chintāmaṇī-samāna hōtī gōṭe — while walking the foot-paths naturally — the pebbles become equal-to Chintāmaṇi. The image: even-the-pebbles on the path become Chintāmaṇi-jewels (the canonical wish-fulfilling jewel of-Hindu-mythology) — for the Hari-bhakta.
Verse 3 (the striking close): Tukā tarī sahaja bōle vāṇī — tyāñce gharī Vedānta vāhe pāṇī — Tukā just-speaks-naturally — at his house, Vedānta carries water. The radical-bhakta-supremacy-claim: at the Hari-bhakta's house, the Vedānta (the supreme-philosophy, the Upaniṣadic-end-of-knowledge) carries-water-(like-a-servant). The Vedānta — usually-supreme — is here-a-water-carrying-servant of the bhakta.
The full image: for the Hari-bhakta, ordinary-things become-wish-fulfilling; the supreme-philosophy is a water-carrying-servant. The bhakti-tradition's radical-claim: bhakti is higher-than even-Vedānta.
For someone today
THE canonical Hari-bhakta's-house: Vedānta-carries-water; pebbles-become-Chintāmaṇi image. On all sides, Hari has become the helper-friend — for him, the wet-courtyard's vines become wish-fulfilling-vines. While walking the foot-paths naturally — the pebbles become equal-to Chintāmaṇi. Tukā just-speaks — at his house, Vedānta carries water.
The verse-claim is radical: bhakti elevates the bhakta-and-his-environment: (1) Hari is everywhere-friend; (2) ordinary-things-become wish-fulfilling; (3) Vedānta itself serves-the-bhakta. The image of Vedānta-carrying-water is one of the most-radical bhakti-supremacy-claims in the Tukārām corpus — pairs with 2905 Vaikuṇṭha-bāpuḍē-before-prema-sukha.
Where this applies
- THE canonical Hari-bhakta's-house: Vedānta-carries-water; pebbles-become-Chintāmaṇi image
- Recognizing for-Hari-bhakta, ordinary-things become-wish-fulfilling
- Vedānta-carries-water-at-his-house — the radical-bhakti-supremacy claim
- Pairs with 2905 (Vaikuṇṭha-bāpuḍē), 2864 (this-sukha-not-in-svarga), 2919 (mukti-in-Hari-dāsas-house)