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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2972 of 4582

Abhanga 2972

Patita mī pāpī śaraṇa ālōm tuja — I, patita (fallen) and pāpī, have come to you for śaraṇa; rākhe mājhī lāja Pāṇḍurangā — protect my lāja (honor), Pāṇḍurangā.

The canonical Draupadī-Prahlāda-Sudāmā redemption-list; save-my-lāja prayer
Recognizing the three-fold canonical-bhakti redemption-list
Why-this-forgetting-of-me-Pāṇḍurangā — bhakta's complaint

The verse

पतित मी पापी शरण आलों तुज । राखें माझी लाज पांडुरंगा ॥१॥ तारियेले भक्त न कळे तुझा अंत । थोर मी पतित पांडुरंगा ॥ध्रु.॥ द्रौपदी बहिणी वैरीं गांजियेली । आपणाऐसी केली पांडुरंगा ॥२॥ प्रल्हादाकारणें स्तंभीं अवतार । माझा कां विसर पांडुरंगा ॥३॥ सुदामा ब्राम्हण दारिद्रे पीडिला । आपणाऐसा केला पांडुरंगा ॥४॥ तुका म्हणे तुज शरण निजभावें । पाप निदाऩळावें पांडुरंगा ॥५॥

Literal translation

Patita mī pāpī śaraṇa ālōm tujaI, patita (fallen) and pāpī, have come to you for śaraṇa; rākhe mājhī lāja Pāṇḍurangāprotect my lāja (honor), Pāṇḍurangā. Tāriyele bhakta na kaḷe tujhā anta(you have) saved bhaktas — your anta (end) is not knowable; thōra mī patita Pāṇḍurangā(I am) a great patita. Draupadī bahiṇī vairī gāñjiyelīDraupadī, (your) bahiṇī (sister), (was) gāñjiyelī (tormented) by enemies; āpaṇā-aiśī kelī Pāṇḍurangā(you) made (her) like yourself. Prahlādā-kāraṇe stambhī avatārafor Prahlāda, (you came as) avatāra in the stambha (pillar); mājhā kām visara Pāṇḍurangāwhy this visara (forgetting) of me? Sudāmā brāhmaṇa dāridrē pīḍilāSudāmā the brāhmaṇa (was) tormented by dāridra (poverty); āpaṇā-aisā kelā Pāṇḍurangā(you) made (him) like yourself. Tukā says: tuja śaraṇa nija-bhāveI have come to you with nija-bhāva; pāpa nidāḷāve Pāṇḍurangādestroy (my) pāpa**.

What it means

A canonical 5-verse Draupadī-Prahlāda-Sudāmā redemption-list + plea. Pairs with 2843's gaṇikā-Ajāmīḷa-Ahilyā-Kubjā-prthivī and 2787's Ajāmīḷa-Bhillī-Kuṇṭanī-Vālmīka as the bhakti-redemption-confidence-corpus.

Three canonical redemptions: 1. Draupadī — when shamed-in-Kaurava-assembly, called-Krṣṇa; he-extended-her-sari-endlessly. Tukārām's-claim: made-her-like-yourself — i.e., took-her-into-his-divine-protection. 2. Prahlāda — son of Hiraṇyakaśipu; when-the-demon-king-demanded "where-is-your-Hari?" and-pointed-to-a-pillar, Viṣṇu emerged-from-the-pillar as Narasimha and killed-the-demon. Tukārām's-question: why-this-forgetting-of-me? — if-you-came-out-of-a-pillar-for-Prahlāda, why-not-for-me? 3. Sudāmā — Krṣṇa's-childhood-friend, a poor-brāhmaṇa; when-he-visited-Krṣṇa-at-Dvārakā with-a-bit-of-broken-rice-as-gift, Krṣṇa-honored-him-supremely and-made-him-rich. Made-him-like-yourself.

Petition: tuja śaraṇa nija-bhāve — pāpa nidāḷāveI-come-with-nija-bhāva; destroy-pāpa.

For someone today

The canonical Draupadī-Prahlāda-Sudāmā redemption-list. I, a patita and pāpī, have come to you for śaraṇa — protect my lāja, Pāṇḍurangā. (You have) saved bhaktas — your end is not knowable — (I am) a great patita, Pāṇḍurangā. Draupadī, (your) sister, (was) tormented by enemies — (you) made (her) like yourself. For Prahlāda, (you came as) avatāra in the pillar — why this forgetting of me? Sudāmā the brāhmaṇa was tormented by poverty — (you) made (him) like yourself. I have come to you with nija-bhāva — destroy (my) pāpa. The verse provides bhakti-confidence-by-precedent: the three canonical-rescues (sari-extending, pillar-emerging, poverty-removing) prove the Lord's-pattern. The pointed-question: why-this-forgetting-of-me, given-these-precedents?

Where this applies

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