Abhanga 3004
Ātām na rāhe kṣaṇa eka — now I will not stay even (one) kṣaṇa; tujhā kaḷalā re laukika — your laukika (worldly-fame) has been revealed; nedīm hālōm eka — I will not let-(myself) move (be-moved-away); kāmhī kelyā-vāñchūnī — without something done.
The verse
आतां न राहें क्षण एक । तुझा कळला रे लौकिक । नेदीं हालों एक । कांहीं केल्यावांचूनि ॥१॥
संबंध पडिला कोणाशीं । काय डोळे झांकितोसी । नेईंन पांचांपाशीं । दे नाहींतरी वोढूनि ॥ध्रु.॥
सुखें नेदीस जाणवलें । नास केल्याविण उगलें । तरि तें ही विचारिलें । आम्ही आहे तुज आधीं ॥२॥
असें च करूनि किती । नागविलीं नाहीं नीती । तुकयाबंधु म्हणे अंतीं । न सोडिसी ते खोडी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Ātām na rāhe kṣaṇa eka — now I will not stay even (one) kṣaṇa; tujhā kaḷalā re laukika — your laukika (worldly-fame) has been revealed; nedīm hālōm eka — I will not let-(myself) move (be-moved-away); kāmhī kelyā-vāñchūnī — without something done. Sambandha paḍilā kōṇāsī — with whom has (the) sambandha (connection) fallen; kāya ḍōḷe jhānkitōsī — why are (you) closing eyes; neīmna pāñchām-pāśī — I will take (you) to the pāñcha (the-five, panchayat-assembly); de nāhī-tarī vōḍhūnī — give (it back) — otherwise — by force. Sukhe nedīsa jāṇavale — (you) do not let-(it)-be-known by sukha (easy means); nāsa kelyā-viṇa ugale — without destroying-(something), (you) will-not be-at-rest; tari te hī vichārile — but-this also (we have) considered; āmhī āhe tuja ādhī — we are (ready) for you ādhī (already, beforehand). Asēn cha karūnī kitī — (you) have done thus much; nāgavilīm nāhī nītī — (you have) stripped without nīti (conscience); tukayā-bandhu mhaṇe antī — na sōḍisī te khōḍī — Tukārām's-brother says: at the end — (you) will not give-up this khōḍī (vice, habit).
What it means
A 3-verse hostage-demand by Tukyā-bandhu. NON-Tukārām.
The bhakta-brother threatens to take-the-Lord-to-the-pāñcha (panchayat-assembly) for-formal-arbitration of-the-dispute. If-the-Lord-won't-return-the-brother-by-sukha (easy-means), the brother-will-use-force. The diagnostic-claim: you have-the-habit (khōḍī) of-destroying-things-and-not-resting-until-you-do; we-have-already-prepared-for-this.
For someone today
Kānhōbā's-take-Lord-to-assembly demand. Now I will not stay even one kṣaṇa — your worldly-fame has been revealed. I will not let (myself) move without something done. With whom is the connection? Why are you closing eyes? I will take (you) to the assembly — or give (it back) by force. You don't let-(it)-be-known by easy-means — won't be-at-rest without destroying-(something) — but this too (we have) considered — we are (ready) for you already. (You) have done so much — stripped without conscience. At the end — (you) will not give-up this vice. The verse permits the bhakta-as-arbitration-claimant who-threatens-the-Lord.
Where this applies
- Part of Kānhōbā's extended-lament-cluster (2977-3007+)
- NON-Tukārām composition — signed by Tukyā-bandhu
- Take-Lord-to-assembly; give-by-force-or-destroy extreme-demand
- Won't-give-up-vice-of-destroying — accusation-of-Lord's-pattern