Abhanga 3195
When realization comes, don't credit many external factors — your samchita ripened. Note the difference between kāmanā (desire-as-craving) and āvaḍī (loving inclination) — bhakti removes the first, keeps and redirects the second.
The verse
कां रे तुम्हीं ठेवा बहुतां निमित्ती । माझिया संचितें वोडवलें ॥१॥
भक्तिप्रेमगोडी बैसली जिव्हारीं । आनंद अंतरीं अंतरीं येणें झाला ॥ध्रु.॥
पुसिलें पडळ त्रिमिर विठ्ठलें । जग चि भरलें ब्रम्हानंदें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे केलों कामनेवेगळा । आवडी गोपाळावरी वसे ॥३॥
Literal translation
Kām rē tumhīm ṭhēvā bahutām nimittī — mājhiyā samchitēm vōḍavalēm — why do you place (it) on many nimittas — it has come by my own samchita. Bhakti-prēma-gōḍī baisalī jivhārīm — ānanda antarīm antarīm yēṇēm jhālā — the bhakti-prema-gōḍī has settled in jivhāra — ānanda has come within (my) antara. Pusilēm paḍaḷa trimira Viṭhṭhalēm — jaga chi bharalēm brahmānandēm — Viṭhṭhala wiped the paḍaḷa of trimira — the whole world is filled with brahma-ānanda. Tukā mhaṇe kēlōm kāmanēvēgaḷā — āvaḍī gōpāḷāvarī vasē — Tukā says: I was made desire-separate — āvaḍī rests on Gopāḷa.
What it means
A 4-verse realization-text. Three points: (1) don't blame many nimittas — samchita is enough; (2) bhakti-prema-gōḍī has lodged in the jivhāra (the most-inner heart-spot) and joy is inward of inward; (3) Viṭhṭhala has done cataract-surgery — paḍaḷa (the white film) of trimira (triple darkness: ignorance / desire / karma) is wiped, and the very world is now filled with brahma-ānanda. The signature line: made desire-separate; āvaḍī rests on Gopāḷa — desire is gone but āvaḍī (loving inclination) remains, redirected.
For someone today
When realization comes, don't credit many external factors — your samchita ripened. Note the difference between kāmanā (desire-as-craving) and āvaḍī (loving inclination) — bhakti removes the first, keeps and redirects the second.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's Viṭhṭhal-cataract-surgery; whole-world-brahmānanda; āvaḍī-on-Gopāḷa canonical
- Companion to 2837 (brahmāṇḍa-Paṇḍharī) and 2922 (karma-became-Nārāyaṇa)