Abhanga 3290
Like a beaten animal too conditioned to rise, the mind can stay stuck in old fear long after the danger has passed, and the honest response is to cry out for help from within that suffering.
The verse
पेणावलें ढोर मार खाय पाठी । बैसलें तें नुठी तेथूनियां ॥१॥
तैसी माझ्या मना परी जाली देवा । धावें अहंभावा सांडावलों ॥ध्रु.॥
कडां घालीं उडी मागिलांच्या भेणें । मरणामरण न कळे चि ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे जालों त्यापरी दुःखित । असें बोलावीत पांडुरंगा ॥३॥
Literal translation
Peṇāvale-ḍhora gets-mār, sits-doesn't-rise. Like-that my-mana, Deva. Runs-from-aham-bhāva; jumps-into-pit from-fear; doesn't-know-marṇa-amaraṇa. Tukā: duḥkhita-like-that, calling-Pāṇḍurangā.
What it means
A 3-verse image-text. Like-a-trained-animal, my-mana takes-mār-and-stays-stuck — only-able-to-call-out.
For someone today
Tukaram compares his own mind to an animal so used to being beaten that it just sits down and refuses to get up, even when nothing is stopping it anymore. Fear of what happened before makes him leap toward danger without even understanding the difference between living and dying. He is honest about this stuck, suffering condition, and simply calls out to Pandurang from within it rather than pretending to be fine.
मराठी: तुकाराम स्वतःच्या मनाची तुलना अशा जनावराशी करतात जे इतकं मार खाऊन सरावलेलं असतं की धोका संपला तरी ते उठतच नाही, तसंच बसून राहतं. आधीच्या भीतीमुळे तो जगणं आणि मरणं यातला फरकही न कळता संकटाकडे झेप घेतो. या अडकलेल्या, दुःखी अवस्थेबद्दल तो प्रामाणिक राहतो आणि नाटक न करता आतूनच पांडुरंगाला हाक मारतो.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's peṇāvale-ḍhora as-mana canonical-image