Abhanga 3317
Tukaram declares that wherever he goes, God goes with him, and now he asks God to step forward fully and take charge. He says his entire capital, everything he has ever invested his life in, has become you alone, nothing else. He begs never to be made to hold on to anything separate from God's feet again. And he pleads simply, do not complicate this now, do not let entanglements creep back in after he has staked everything on this one relationship.
The verse
जिकडे जाय तिकडे सवें । आतां यावें यावरी ॥१॥
माझ्या अवघ्या भांडवला । तूं एकला जालासी ॥ध्रु.॥
आतां दुजें धरा झणी । पायांहूनि वेगळें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे आतां देवा । नका गोवा यावरी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Wherever-jīva-goes, with-(you). Now-come, on-top-of-this. My-all-bhāṇḍavala — you-eka. Don't-grasp-different from-feet. Tukā: Deva, don't-create-gōvā now.
What it means
A canonical you-alone-are-my-all-capital claim. Don't-make-me-grasp-anything-different from-your-feet.
For someone today
Tukaram declares that wherever he goes, God goes with him, and now he asks God to step forward fully and take charge. He says his entire capital, everything he has ever invested his life in, has become you alone, nothing else. He begs never to be made to hold on to anything separate from God's feet again. And he pleads simply, do not complicate this now, do not let entanglements creep back in after he has staked everything on this one relationship.
मराठी: तुकाराम सांगतात की जिथे जिथे मी जातो तिथे तू माझ्यासोबत असतोस, आता तू पुढे येऊन सगळी जबाबदारी घे. माझं सगळं भांडवल, माझ्या आयुष्याची सगळी गुंतवणूक, आता फक्त तूच झाला आहेस, दुसरं काही उरलं नाही. तुझ्या पायांशिवाय दुसरं काही धरायला लावू नकोस अशी ते विनंती करतात. आणि शेवटी साधी विनंती, आता काही गुंतागुंत निर्माण करू नकोस, इतकं सगळं तुझ्यावर सोपवल्यावर पुन्हा भरकटायला नको.
Where this applies
- When you have committed everything to one path or relationship and worry about getting pulled away again
- When you feel God's presence following you and want to fully commit rather than stay half-hearted
- When old attachments or worldly ties threaten to pull you back after you thought you had let them go
- When you simply want to ask that a decision you have already made not be complicated further