Abhanga 3337
When remembrance of God becomes constant and effortless, the sense of separateness dissolves and even desire itself falls away.
The verse
चित्तीं बैसलें चिंतन । नारायण नारायण ॥१॥
न लगे गोड कांहीं आतां । आणीक दुसरें सर्वथा ॥ध्रु.॥
हरपला द्वैतभाव । तेणें देह जाला वाव ॥२॥
तुकयाबंधु म्हणे आम्ही । जालों निष्काम ये कामीं ॥३॥
Literal translation
Chintana-settled-in-chitti — Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa. Nothing-else-feels-gōḍa — no-second-at-all. Dvaita-bhāva-vanished — deha-became-vāva. Tukayā-bandhu: we-became-niṣkāma in-this-very-kāma.
What it means
A 3-verse Kānhōbā composition preserved in the Sakal Sant Gatha tradition; the signature Tukayā-bandhu unmistakably identifies Kānhōbā (Tukārām's younger brother). Companion-text to the Kānhōbā elegy-cluster (2977-3014) and Kānhōbā's Kali-prophecy (3025).
For someone today
This verse comes from Kanhoba, Tukaram's own younger brother, preserved here within the wider Gatha tradition. He describes a state where remembrance of Narayana has become so constant that it now fills the mind on its own, without effort. Nothing else tastes sweet to him anymore, no other pursuit, pleasure, or thought competes with it. The sense of duality, of feeling separate from God, has simply dissolved, and with it even the sense of being a solid, separate body has grown thin. He closes with something almost paradoxical, in this one single pursuit of God, he has become completely free of wanting anything, even freedom itself.
मराठी: ही रचना तुकारामांचे धाकटे बंधू कान्होबा यांची आहे, जी या व्यापक गाथा परंपरेत जपली गेली आहे. ते सांगतात की नारायणाचं चिंतन इतकं सतत झालं आहे की ते आता आपसूकच मनात रुजून राहतं, प्रयत्नाशिवाय. आता दुसरं काहीच गोड वाटत नाही, कुठलंही सुख किंवा विचार त्याच्याशी बरोबरी करू शकत नाही. देवापासून वेगळेपणाची जाणीव, द्वैतभाव, पूर्णपणे नाहीसा झाला आहे, आणि त्यामुळे स्वतंत्र देहाची जाणीवही क्षीण झाली आहे. शेवटी ते जवळजवळ विरोधाभासी गोष्ट सांगतात, याच एका ओढीत ते पूर्णपणे निष्काम झाले आहेत, अगदी मुक्तीचीही इच्छा उरलेली नाही.
Where this applies
- NON-Tukārām (Kānhōbā = Tukayā-bandhu)
- Preserved in Sakal Sant Gatha as part of Tukārām-corpus tradition
- Companion to Kānhōbā elegy-cluster (2977-3014) and Kānhōbā Kali-prophecy (3025)