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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3324 of 4582

Abhanga 3324

When the whole world feels empty, admit your helplessness honestly and trust that God is the giver who provides for those who have nothing.

When everywhere you look feels empty and only your bond with God feels real.
When you want your devotion to stop being routine and become genuinely sincere.
When you feel helpless and need to trust that God already understands your weakness.

The verse

पाहें तिकडे दिशा ओस । अवघी पास पायांपें ॥१॥ मन चि साच होइल कई । प्रेम देई भेटोनि ॥ध्रु.॥ सर्वापरि पांगुळ असें । न कळे कैंसे तें तुम्हा ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे कृपावंता । तूं तों दाता दीनाचा ॥३॥

Literal translation

Wherever-I-look diśā-ōsa — all-pāsa at-pāyā. When-will mana become-sācha — give-prēma by-meeting. In-every-way pānguḷa — doesn't-you-know-how. Tukā: krpā-full — you the-dātā-of-the-dīna.

What it means

A 3-verse petition: the-world-is-empty-of-everything-but-you; when-will-my-mana-become-true; you-alone-give-to-the-helpless.

For someone today

Wherever Tukaram looks, the world feels empty and deserted, everything he is really attached to comes back to God's feet alone. He asks a raw question, when will my own mind actually become sincere, not just going through motions? He wants a real meeting, a felt love, not distant belief. He admits plainly that he is helpless in every way and trusts that God already understands exactly how weak he is. He ends by naming what he is counting on, that God is the one who gives to those who have nothing.

मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात, जिकडे पाहावं तिकडे जग रितं आणि ओसाड वाटतं, माझं खरं नातं फक्त तुझ्या पायांशीच आहे. ते एक थेट प्रश्न विचारतात, माझं मन खरोखर प्रामाणिक कधी होईल, केवळ सोपस्कार न राहता? त्यांना खरी भेट हवी आहे, अनुभवलेलं प्रेम हवं आहे, केवळ दुरचा विश्वास नको. मी सर्वार्थाने असहाय्य आहे हे ते स्पष्टपणे कबूल करतात आणि तुला माझी दुर्बलता आधीच माहीत आहे यावर विश्वास ठेवतात. शेवटी ते नमूद करतात, ज्याच्याजवळ काहीच नाही त्यालाच तू देतोस, हाच माझा भरवसा आहे.

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