Abhanga 3020
Total surrender to God can clear sorrow, cut the rope of craving, quiet even the fear of death, and turn every creature into a friend.
The verse
मरोनि जाईंन गुणनामावरूनि । तुझ्या चक्रपाणी मायबापा ॥१॥
चुकविलीं दुःखें मायेचा वोळसा । तोडोनियां आशापाश तेणें ॥ध्रु.॥
केली काया तनु हिंवसी शीतळ । चिंतातळमळ नाहीं ऐसी ॥२॥
काळें तोंड काळ करूनि राहिलें । भूतमात्र जालें सज्जनसखें ॥३॥
तुकयाबंधु म्हणें अवघ्या देशदिशा । मुक्त रे परेशा तुझ्या पुण्यें ॥४॥
Literal translation
Marōnī jāīna guṇa-nāmāvarūnī — I will die-and-go on (your)guṇa-nāma; tujhyā chakra-pāṇī māya-bāpā — yours, Chakrapāṇi, mother-father. Chukavilī duḥkhe māyeñcā vōḷasā — (you have) averted (the)duḥkhas— māyā'svōḷasā(snare); tōḍōnīyām āśā-pāśa teṇe — by-breaking theāśā-pāśa(rope-of-desire) by that. Kelī kāyā tanu himvasī śītaḷa — (you have) made thekāyā-tanu—himvasī śītaḷa(cool, peaceful); chintā-taḷamaḷa nāhī aisī — there is no suchchintā-taḷamaḷa. Kāḷe tōṇḍa kāḷa karūnī rāhile — thekāḷe-tōṇḍa(black-faced)kāḷa(Time) — has-stayed; bhūta-mātra jāle sajjana-sakhe — everybhūta-mātrahas become asajjana-sakhe. Tukayā-bandhu mhaṇe avaghyā deśa-diśā — Tukārām's-brother says: alldeśa-diśās; mukta re Pareśā tujhyā puṇye — (are)mukta— by yourpuṇya, Pareśa.
What it means
A canonical 4-verse bhakti-petition by Tukyā-bandhu. NON-Tukārām.
The verse moves from-personal-dedication (I'll-die-on-your-Name) to-experience-of-Lord's-action (you-cleared-duḥkhas, broke-āśā-pāśa, made-body-cool, no-worry-tossing) to-cosmic-pacification (Kāḷa stays-quiet; every-creature becomes-sajjana-friend) to-final-claim (all-directions-are-mukta-by-your-puṇya).
The image of every-bhūta-mātra-becoming-sajjana-sakhe (every-creature-becoming-good-friend) is a striking-bhakti-non-dualism — the bhakti-experience transforms-all-creatures-into-allies. Compare-Tukārām's vrkṣa-vallī-eco-bhakti (2471).
For someone today
Kānhobā offers himself completely here, saying he is ready to live and die simply repeating the Lord's name, calling Chakrapāṇi both mother and father. He says the Lord has already cleared away his sorrows, the trap of illusion, by cutting the rope of craving and desire. His body and mind have grown cool and calm, with no more restless worry churning inside. Even dreaded, dark-faced Time falls quiet, and every living creature starts to feel like a true friend. Tukārām's brother declares that through the Lord's grace, every direction has become a place of freedom. It shows how total surrender to God can clear sorrow, cut the rope of craving, quiet even the fear of death, and turn every creature into a friend.
मराठी: कान्होबा येथे स्वतःला पूर्णपणे समर्पित करतो — तो सांगतो की चक्रपाणीचे नाम घेतच जगेन आणि मरेनही, कारण तोच त्याची आई आणि बाप आहे. परमेश्वराने मायेच्या पाशातील दुःखे आधीच दूर केली आहेत, आशेचा दोरखंड तोडून, असे तो सांगतो. त्याचे शरीर आणि मन शीतल, शांत झाले आहे, आत कुठलीही अस्वस्थ काळजी उरलेली नाही. भयावह, काळ्या तोंडाचा काळही आता शांत राहतो, आणि प्रत्येक जीव खरा मित्र वाटू लागतो. तुकारामांचा भाऊ सांगतो की परमेश्वराच्या पुण्याईमुळे सर्व दिशा मुक्त झाल्या आहेत. परमेश्वराला संपूर्ण शरण गेल्याने दुःख दूर होते, आशेचा पाश तुटतो, मृत्यूचे भयही शांत होते, आणि प्रत्येक जीव मित्र बनतो, हेच हा अभंग सांगतो.
Where this applies
- When someone is ready to let go of every worry and simply rest in surrender before dying
- When a person feels crushed by craving and desire and needs the rope of that desire cut
- When old fears or a sense of doom (pictured as a dark, threatening Time) still haunt someone and they need reassurance that it can go quiet
- When a person struggling with isolation longs to feel that other people, even strangers, can become friends