Abhanga 2960
Tukaram prays for the pull of worldly life to fade away, so that his heart can melt completely at the Lord's feet. He asks Panduranga to do this for him — to color him entirely in that pure, essential hue of devotion. He's had enough, he says, of being under any other influence or control; he wants nothing to rule him but the Lord. Once the falseness in him is stripped away, he says, the suffering it causes will finally leave.
The verse
प्रपंच वोसरो । चत्ति तुझे पायीं मुरो ॥१॥
ऐसें करिं गा पांडुरंगा । शुद्ध रंगवावें रंगा ॥ध्रु.॥
पुरे पुरे आतां । नको दुजियाची सत्ता ॥२॥
लटिकें तें फेडा । तुका म्हणे जाय पीडा ॥३॥
Literal translation
Prapañcha vōsarō — let theprapañcha(world) recede; chitti tujhe pāyī murō — let the chitta melt into your feet. Aise kari gā Pāṇḍurangā — do this, Pāṇḍurangā; śuddha rangavāve rangā — color (me) with the pureranga. Pure pure ātām — enough, enough, now; nakō dujiyāñcī sattā — I don't (want) another'ssattā(control, power). Laṭike te phēḍā — remove thelaṭika(false); Tukā says: jāya pīḍā — thepīḍā(suffering, harassment) goes.
What it means
A short prapañcha-recede petition verse. Prapañcha vōsarō — chitti tujhe pāyī murō — let prapañcha recede — chitta melt into your feet. The two-fold-petition: (1) world-recedes; (2) chitta-melts-into-feet.
Aise kari gā Pāṇḍurangā — śuddha rangavāve rangā — do this, Pāṇḍurangā — color with pure ranga. The color-image: Pāṇḍurangā colors-the-bhakta with his-own-ranga (= his-essential-color/passion).
Pure pure ātām — nakō dujiyāñcī sattā — enough-enough — no other-sattā. The exhaustion-with-other-influences. (Pairs with 2933 only-Hari exclusive-bhakti.)
The close: laṭike te phēḍā — Tukā mhaṇe jāya pīḍā — remove the false — the suffering goes. The diagnostic-claim: removing-the-false removes-pīḍā.
For someone today
Tukaram prays for the pull of worldly life to fade away, so that his heart can melt completely at the Lord's feet. He asks Panduranga to do this for him — to color him entirely in that pure, essential hue of devotion. He's had enough, he says, of being under any other influence or control; he wants nothing to rule him but the Lord. Once the falseness in him is stripped away, he says, the suffering it causes will finally leave.
मराठी: तुकाराम प्रार्थना करतात की संसाराची ओढ कमी व्हावी, जेणेकरून त्यांचे मन पूर्णपणे देवाच्या चरणी विरघळून जावे. ते पांडुरंगाला विनवतात की त्याने त्यांना आपल्या शुद्ध, खऱ्या रंगात रंगवावे. आता पुरे झाले, ते म्हणतात — इतर कोणत्याही सत्तेच्या अधीन राहायचे नाही; फक्त देवाचेच अधिपत्य हवे. मनातील खोटेपणा दूर झाला की, ते म्हणतात, त्यामुळे होणारा त्रासही आपोआप निघून जातो.
Where this applies
- The let-prapañcha-recede; chitta-melt-at-feet petition
- Recognizing enough-of-other's-sattā; want-only-yours
- Remove-the-laṭika; pīḍā-goes discipline
- Pairs with 2865 (laṭika-laṭika māyā refrain)