Abhanga 3289
When you truly trust God as the one who supplies and provides, the anxious effort of managing your own life falls away.
The verse
देवाची भांडारी । आदा विनियोग करी ॥१॥
आतां न माखे हातपाय । नेणों होतें ऐसें काय ॥ध्रु.॥
देवें नेली चिंता । जाला सकळ करिता ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे धणी । त्यासी अवघी पुरवणी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Deva-bhāṇḍārī, ādā-viniyoga-karī. No-more-dirty-hand-foot; (don't know-what-was-before). Deva-took-chintā, became-sakaḷa-karitā. Tukā: dhaṇī, his-puravaṇī-of-everything.
What it means
A short 3-verse trust-text. Deva-as-budget-keeper; he-supplies-everything.
For someone today
When you truly hand your life over to God, you stop carrying the weight of managing everything yourself. Tukaram compares God to a treasurer who takes charge of distribution and supply; once that trust is real, your hands and feet no longer get dirtied by anxious scrambling. Every worry you once carried, God has already taken up as his own work, providing everything the household needs.
मराठी: जेव्हा तुम्ही खरोखर आपलं आयुष्य देवाच्या हातात सोपवता, तेव्हा सगळं स्वतःच सांभाळण्याचं ओझं उरत नाही. तुकाराम देवाला भांडारी म्हणतात, जो सगळ्याचा वाटा आणि पुरवठा स्वतः ठरवतो; हा विश्वास खरा झाला की हातपाय काळजीच्या धावपळीने मळत नाहीत. आधी जी चिंता तुम्ही उचलत होता, ती आता देवानेच स्वतःच्या जबाबदारीवर घेतली आहे, आणि प्रत्येक गरजेचा पुरवठा तोच करतो.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's Deva-as-bhāṇḍāri; took-chintā canonical