Abhanga 3250
Love grows simply by loving, whatever you truly long for becomes yours, and quiet remembrance is the truest truth.
The verse
आतां हें चि सार हें चि सार । मूळबीज रे आइका ॥१॥
आवडीनें आवडी उरे । जें ज्या झुरे तें त्यासी ॥ध्रु.॥
प्रेमाचिया सूत्रदोरी । नाहीं उरी उरवी ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे चिंतन बरें । आहे खरें ख†यापें ॥३॥
Literal translation
Ātām he chi sāra he chi sāra — now this very sāra; mūla-bīja re āikā — mūla-bīja, listen. Āvaḍīne āvaḍī ure — by āvaḍī, āvaḍī stays-grows; je jyā jhure te tyāsī — what burns for something is his. Premāñciyā sūtra-dōrī — prema's sūtra-dōrī; nāhī urī uravī — no urī-uravī. Tukā mhaṇe chintana barē — Tukā says: chintana is good; āhe khare khariyāpē — true of the true.
What it means
A 3-verse mūla-bīja text. The essence is: by-āvaḍī, āvaḍī-grows; what-burns-for-something belongs-to-it; the-prema-thread has-no-residue; chintana is the true-of-the-true.
For someone today
Tukaram calls this the essence, the root seed of everything else: love simply grows by loving, and whatever you truly long for pulls toward you and becomes bound to you. The thread of love, once tied, leaves nothing unfinished or left over, it holds completely. He says that quiet remembrance is what is genuinely good, the truest of all truths. If you want your love or devotion to deepen, you don't need a special reason or elaborate method, just keep loving and remembering, and it grows on its own.
मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात की हेच सार आहे, हेच मूळबीज आहे, नीट ऐका: प्रेमाने प्रेम वाढत जाते, आणि ज्याच्यासाठी मन झुरते ते त्याचेच होऊन जाते. प्रेमाची सूत्रदोरी एकदा बांधली की तिच्यात काहीही अपुरे किंवा शिल्लक राहत नाही, ती पूर्णपणे बांधून टाकते. ते म्हणतात की शांत चिंतन हेच खरोखर चांगले आहे, तेच खऱ्यातले खरे सत्य आहे. तुमचे प्रेम किंवा भक्ती अधिक खोल व्हावी असे वाटत असेल, तर विशेष कारण किंवा गुंतागुंतीच्या पद्धतीची गरज नाही, फक्त प्रेम करत राहा आणि आठवत राहा, ते आपोआप वाढत जाते.
Where this applies
- When you wonder how to make your love or devotion grow deeper when it feels thin
- When you long intensely for someone or something and notice that longing pulling it closer
- When you're looking for one simple practice to hold onto amid many complicated teachings
- When you want to trust that quiet remembrance, not grand effort, is what matters most