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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3087 of 4582

Abhanga 3087

Bahut krpāḷu dīnāñcā dayāḷu — very krpāḷu, dīna-dayāḷu; jagīm bhakta-vatsaḷu nāma tujhe — in the world, bhakta-vatsaḷa is your Name.

Bhakta-jana-mamatā-alōlika canonical claim

The verse

बहुत कृपाळु दीनाचा दयाळु । जगीं भक्तवत्सळु नाम तुझें ॥१॥ मानियेला चत्तिीं बळीचा उपकार । अझूनि त्याचें द्वार राखसील ॥ध्रु.॥ काय त्याच्या भेणें बैसलासी द्वारीं । नाहीं तुज हरि कृपा बहु ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे भक्तजनाची ममता । तुम्हांसी अनंता अलोलिक ॥३॥

Literal translation

Bahut krpāḷu dīnāñcā dayāḷuvery krpāḷu, dīna-dayāḷu; jagīm bhakta-vatsaḷu nāma tujhein the world, bhakta-vatsaḷa is your Name. Māniyelā chittīm Baḷīñcā upakāra(you have) taken Bali's upakāra into chitta; ajhūnī tyāñce dvāra rākhasīla(you) still guard his door. Kāya tyāñcyā bheṇe baisalāsī dvārīm(is it) by fear of him (that) you sit at the door; nāhī tuja Harī krpā bahuno, Harī, your krpā is much. Tukā mhaṇe bhakta-janāñcī mamatāTukā says: bhakta-jana's mamatā; tumhāmsī Anantā alōlikais alōlika (unique) to you, Ananta.

What it means

★ The Bali / Vāmana follow-up text in-the-Daśāvatāra-meditation-cluster.

The narrative: After-Vāmana-pushed-Bali-to-pātāḷa (covered in 3044), the Lord-grants-Bali's-request and-guards-Bali's-door as-doorkeeper. The text-emphasizes: (your) door-guarding is-not-by-fear-of-him (you-could-easily-leave) but-by-your-own-krpā and-bhakta-vatsalya.

The doctrinal-claim: bhakta-jana's-mamatā is-alōlika (unique-and-beyond-the-ordinary-world) to-you, Ananta. The Lord-himself-is-bound-by-the-bhakta's-affection — not by-fear, not by-debt, but by-mutual-mamatā.

This-completes the-Daśāvatāra-cluster's-doctrinal-arc: each-avatāra is for-the-bhakta; the-Lord-himself-is-bound-by-bhakta-affection — alōlika.

For someone today

Tukārām's Bali-Vāmana follow-up. Very compassionate, kind-to-the-destitute; in the world, bhakta-vatsaḷa is your Name. (You have) taken Bali's good-act into chitta; (you) still guard his door. Is it by fear of him (that) you sit at the door? No — Harī, your compassion is much. The affection of bhakta-jana is unique-beyond-the-world to you, Ananta. The verse permits the bhakti-claim that the-Lord-is-bound-by-bhakta-mamatā-and-not-by-fear.

Where this applies

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