Abhanga 3050
Samta mārgīm chālatī — the sants walk on the mārga; tyāñcī lāgo maja mātī — let their māti attach to me.
The verse
संत मारगीं चालती । त्यांची लागो मज माती ॥१॥
काय करावीं साधनें । काय नव्हे एक तेणें ॥ध्रु.॥
शेष घेईंन उच्छिष्ट । धाय धणीवरी पोट ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे संतां पायीं । जीव ठेविला निश्चयीं ॥३॥
Literal translation
Samta mārgīm chālatī — the sants walk on the mārga; tyāñcī lāgo maja mātī — let their māti attach to me. Kāya karāvīm sādhane — what (other) sādhanas need to be done; kāya navhe eka teṇe — what is not (achievable) by that one. Śeṣa gheīmna uchchhiṣṭa — I'll take śeṣa-uchchhiṣṭa; dhāya dhaṇī varī pōṭa — (fill) the belly dhāya-dhaṇī (full-to-satisfaction). Tukā mhaṇe samtām pāyīm — Tukā says: at sants' pāya; jīva ṭhevilā niśchayīm — I have placed jīva with niśchaya.
What it means
★ A canonical 3-verse sants'-feet-dust-as-everything text by Tukārām.
The claim: Sants-walk-the-mārga; their-dust-on-me. What-other-sādhana-is-needed? — what-is-not-(possible)-by-that-one? I'll-take-their-śeṣa-uchchhiṣṭa (leftovers) and-fill-belly-full. At-sants'-feet jīva-placed-with-niśchaya.
★ This is one of-the-strongest sant-sanga-supremacy texts. The radical-claim: sants'-māti (foot-dust) replaces all-other-sādhana. The eating-of-sants'-leftovers (śeṣa-uchchhiṣṭa) is the prasāda-eating practice — a humility-rite that connects-bhakta-and-sant.
Compare-Tukārām's 2887 (sant-pūjā warrant — pāya-vaṇī-kāyā-kuravaṇḍī-ōmvāḷaṇē), 3035 (sant-sanga + chandana-fragrance), 2629 (santa-udāra-udāra).
For someone today
Tukārām's canonical sants'-feet-dust text. The sants walk on the mārga — let their dust attach to me. What (other) sādhana needs to be done? — what is not (achievable) by that one (alone)? I will take (their) leftovers — and fill (my) belly full-to-satisfaction. At the sants' feet — I have placed my jīva with firm-resolve. The verse permits the canonical sants'-feet-dust-as-everything-needed claim.
Where this applies
- ★ Canonical sants'-māgī-māti — sants'-feet-dust-as-everything
- Śeṣa-uchchhiṣṭa-as-prasāda-eating humility-rite
- Jīva-placed-at-sants'-feet-with-niśchaya firm-resolve
- Companion to 2887, 3035, 2629