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Abhanga 3308
Even after an old hope dies and you stop clinging, the net of worldly attachment can still pull you back into suffering, so real freedom takes more than giving up on one desire.
When you have stopped hoping for something but still feel pulled back into old pain
When a relationship you relied on suddenly feels cold and distant
When you realize that letting go of one attachment hasn't actually freed your mind
The verse
मागें चिंता होती आस । केला नास या काळें ॥१॥
तुम्ही आम्हां उदासीन । भिन्नाभिन्न वारिलें ॥ध्रु.॥
मोहजाळें दुःख वाढे । ओढे ओढे त्यास तें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे कोण देवा । आतां हेवा वाढवी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Earlier-chintā-was-āsa; now-destroyed. You-udāsīna-to-us; bhinnābhinna-stopped. Mōha-jāḷa-duḥkha-grows-pulls. Tukā: who-grows-hēvā-now, Deva?
What it means
A short 3-verse observation. Hope-of-the-old-things is-destroyed but-the-mōha-net-still-pulls.
For someone today
Tukārām's transition-state: old-hope-gone, mōha-still-pulls.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's desire-destroyed; mōha-still-pulls transition