Abhanga 3026
Turning your daily routine, even a simple bath and a meal, into an occasion for repeating God's name is enough to protect you from real loss, now and always.
The verse
केली हार्णाळां अंघोळी । येऊनि बैसलों राउळीं॥१॥
अजिचें जाले भोजन । राम कृष्ण नारायण ॥२॥
तुकयाबंधु म्हणे नास । नाहीं कल्पांती जयास ॥३॥
॥१२॥
Literal translation
Kelī hārṇāḷām anghōḷī — (I) did bath at Hārṇāḷa (river-name, possibly Indrāyaṇī or a tīrtha); yeūnī baisalōm rāuḷīm — having come, (I) sat in (the) rāūḷa (temple-sanctum). Ajīñce jāle bhōjana — today's bhojana (meal) has happened; Rāma Krṣṇa Nārāyaṇa — (the meal is) Rāma-Krṣṇa-Nārāyaṇa. Tukayā-bandhu mhaṇe nāsa nāhī kalpāntī jayāsa — Tukārām's-brother says: there is no nāśa for that (one) — even in kalpa-anta.
Editorial colophon: ॥१२॥ likely marks-a-12-abhang Tukyā-bandhu sub-cluster.
What it means
A short 3-verse Name-as-meal text by Tukyā-bandhu. NON-Tukārām. Closes with editorial colophon ॥१२॥ — likely marks-a-12-abhang sub-cluster.
The verse-is-a-condensed-daily-routine of-the-bhakta: bath-at-the-river; sat-in-the-temple-sanctum; today's-meal-is-the-Name (Rāma-Krṣṇa-Nārāyaṇa); this-bhakta-has-no-destruction-even-in-kalpa-anta.
The image of Name-as-bhojana (meal) connects-to-Tukārām's-own pavitra-anna (2806 — food-is-pure-when-eaten-in-Hari-chintana) and-Vārkarī-practice of Nāma-japa-as-meal-replacement. Compare-also-the kavaḷō-kavaḷī Govinda-Name bhakta-bhojana-mantra (2874).
The closing-colophon ॥१२॥ suggests this-completes a-12-abhang Tukyā-bandhu sub-cluster. The Sakal Sant Gatha curators used-nested-colophons to-organize-the-anthology.
For someone today
In this short verse the poet describes an ordinary day: a bath in the river, then sitting quietly in the temple. The real meal of the day, he says, was not food but the name of God, Rama Krishna Narayana, repeated inwardly. He closes with the promise that whoever lives this way, feeding on the name, will never truly be destroyed, not even at the end of time. It is a simple picture of how devotion can be woven into daily routine, no more complicated than bathing and sitting down to eat.
मराठी: या छोट्या अभंगात कवी एका साध्या दिवसाचे वर्णन करतो — नदीत स्नान केले आणि मग देवळात जाऊन शांत बसला. तो म्हणतो की त्या दिवसाचे खरे भोजन अन्न नव्हते, तर मनातल्या मनात घेतलेले राम-कृष्ण-नारायण हे नाम होते. शेवटी तो असे आश्वासन देतो की जो असे नामरूपी भोजन घेतो, त्याचा कधीही नाश होत नाही, अगदी कल्पांतीसुद्धा नाही. रोजच्या साध्या दिनक्रमात भक्ती किती सहजपणे विणता येते, याचे हे एक साधे चित्र आहे — स्नान करणे आणि जेवायला बसणे इतकेच सोपे.
Where this applies
- NON-Tukārām composition — signed by Tukyā-bandhu
- Closes with ॥१२॥ — likely marks-a-12-abhang sub-cluster
- Companion to Tukārām's pavitra-anna (2806) and kavaḷō-kavaḷī (2874)
- Short canonical Name-as-meal text