Abhanga 3084
Agnikuṇḍāmadhye ghātalā Prahlāda — Prahlāda was thrown in agni-kuṇḍa; tarī tō Govinda visarenā — but he doesn't forget Govinda.
The verse
अग्निकुंडामध्यें घातला प्रल्हाद । तरी तो गोविंद विसरेना ॥१॥
पितियासी म्हणे व्यापक श्रीहरि । नांदतो मुरारी सर्वां ठायीं ॥ध्रु.॥
अग्निरूपें माझा सखा नारायण । प्रल्हाद गर्जून हाक मारी ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे अग्नि जाहाला शीतळ । प्रताप सबळ विठो तुझा ॥३॥
Literal translation
Agnikuṇḍāmadhye ghātalā Prahlāda — Prahlāda was thrown in agni-kuṇḍa; tarī tō Govinda visarenā — but he doesn't forget Govinda. Pitayāsī mhaṇe vyāpaka Śrīhari — to (his) father, he says: Śrīhari (is) vyāpaka; nāmdatō Murārī sarvām ṭhāyī — Murārī dwells in every place. Agnirūpe mājhā sakhā Nārāyaṇa — in agni-rūpa, my sakhā Nārāyaṇa; Prahlāda garjūna hāka mārī — Prahlāda, roaring-out, made (this) shout. Tukā mhaṇe agni jāhālā śītaḷa — Tukā says: agni became śītaḷa; pratāpa sabaḷa Viṭho tujhā — your pratāpa is strong, Viṭho.
What it means
★ The 4th-of-6 Prahlāda-rakṣaṇa text — the fire-test stage.
The narrative: Prahlāda thrown-in-fire-pit; doesn't-forget-Govinda; tells-father: Śrīhari is-vyāpaka (pervading); Murārī-dwells-everywhere; in-the-agni-rūpa-itself is-my-sakhā-Nārāyaṇa; Prahlāda-roars-out; agni-became-cool.
★ The doctrine is advaita-bhakti: the-fire-itself is-Nārāyaṇa; the-bhakta-recognizes-Nārāyaṇa-in-the-fire-rūpa; therefore-the-fire-cannot-harm — it becomes-cool. This is the vyāpaka-Hari recognition.
For someone today
Tukārām's Prahlāda-fire-test. Prahlāda was thrown into the agni-kuṇḍa; but he does not forget Govinda. To his father, he says: Śrīhari is vyāpaka — Murārī dwells in every place. In the form of agni itself — my sakhā Nārāyaṇa! Prahlāda, roaring-out, made this shout. The agni became śītaḷa — your pratāpa is strong, Viṭho. The verse permits the canonical vyāpaka-Hari advaita-bhakti recognition: the-attacker-itself is-the-Lord; fire-cools-by-recognition.
Where this applies
- ★ 4th-of-6 Prahlāda-rakṣaṇa sub-cluster — fire-test
- Vyāpaka-Hari, Murārī-sarvām-ṭhāyī canonical formulation
- Agni-rūpa = sakhā-Nārāyaṇa recognition