Abhanga 3338
When surrender is complete, it stops feeling like your own effort and instead feels like something the divine has already done to you, burning away the old and leaving nothing of ordinary life behind.
The verse
व्यापिलें सर्वत्र । बाहेरी भीतरीं अंत ॥१॥
ऐसें गोविंदें गोविलें । बोलें न वजाये बोलिले ॥ध्रु.॥
संचिताची होळी । करूनि जीव घेतला बळी ॥२॥
तुकयाबंधु म्हणे नाहीं । आतां संसारा उरी कांहीं ॥३॥
Literal translation
Vyāpilē sarvatra — (he has) pervaded everywhere; bāherī bhīterī anta — outside, inside, end. Aise Govinde govile — Govinda has thus govile (bound); bōle na vajāye bōlile — what is spoken cannot be uttered. Samchitāñcī hōḷī — hōḷī of samchita; karūnī jīva ghetalā baḷī — making, (he has) taken jīva as baḷi. Tukayā-bandhu mhaṇe nāhī — Tukārām's-brother says: nothing; ātām samsārā urī kāmhī — of samsāra is left over.
What it means
A 3-verse text by Tukyā-bandhu (Kānhōbā). NON-Tukārām.
The claim: Govinda has-pervaded-everywhere (outside-inside-end); has-tied-me-up so-completely that-speech-can't-utter-it; has-made-hōḷī-of-samchita; has-taken-jīva-as-baḷi. Nothing-of-samsāra-left.
Striking parallel-text to-Tukārām's-own 3121 (deha-as-baḷi, hōḷī-of-samchita). The brother's-text uses the-same-resolution-imagery but-frames-it as-accomplished-fact (passive — Govinda-has-done-it-to-me) rather-than-resolve.
For someone today
Kānhōbā's pervasion-claim. (He has) pervaded everywhere — outside, inside, end. Govinda has thus tied (me) — what is spoken cannot be uttered. (He has) made a bonfire of (the) accumulated-karma; has taken (my) life as sacrifice. Now nothing of samsāra is left over. The verse permits the passive claim that the Lord has already done the burning and the sacrifice.
मराठी: तो सर्वत्र व्यापून राहिला आहे — बाहेर, आत, अगदी शेवटीही. गोविंदाने मला असे बांधून टाकले आहे की ते शब्दांत सांगताही येत नाही. त्याने संचिताची होळी केली आहे आणि माझा जीवच बळी घेतला आहे. आता संसाराचे काहीही शिल्लक उरलेले नाही. हा अभंग असा दावा करतो की जळणे आणि बलिदान हे देवानेच आधीच पूर्ण केले आहे.
Where this applies
- NON-Tukārām composition — signed Tukyā-bandhu mhaṇe
- Govinda-pervaded-everywhere; samsāra-burned canonical-imagery
- Companion to 3121 (Tukārām's parallel-image)