Abhanga 3339
Because the future of the body is unknown and chances to meet grow rare, offer your respect and love to people now, while you still can, rather than waiting.
The verse
तुम्हांआम्हांसी दरुषण । जालें दुर्लभ भाषण ॥१॥
म्हणऊनि करितों आतां । दंडवत घ्या समस्तां ॥ध्रु.॥
भविष्याचें माथां देह । कोण जाणें होइल काय ॥२॥
म्हणे तुकयाचा बंधव । आमचा तो जाला भाव ॥३॥
Literal translation
Tumhāmāmhāmsī daruṣaṇa — for you-and-us, daruṣaṇa; jāle durlabha bhāṣaṇa — (has) become rare, speech (too). Mhaṇaūnī karitōm ātām — therefore, now, I do; daṇḍavata ghyā samastām — accept (my) daṇḍavata, all of you. Bhaviṣyāñce māthām deha — deha on the head of bhaviṣya; kōṇa jāṇe hōila kāya — who knows what will happen. Mhaṇe tukayāñcā bamdhava — says Tukārām's-brother; āmacha tō jālā bhāva — this has become our bhāva.
What it means
A short 3-verse text by Tukārām's-brother (Kānhōbā). NON-Tukārām.
The text-reads-as-a-distancing/farewell: mutual-darśana and-conversation have-become-rare; therefore, while-able, accept-my-daṇḍavata; the-future-of-deha is-unknown; this-has-become-our-bhāva (this-is-our-disposition-now).
The uncertain-future, daṇḍavata-while-able posture is striking. May-reflect Kānhōbā's-post-Tukārām-departure mood or a generally-philosophical-farewell.
For someone today
Kānhōbā's farewell. For you and us, mutual-seeing has become rare; even conversation (has become rare). Therefore, now, I do this — accept (my) prostration, all of you. The body on the head of the future — who knows what will happen? Says Tukārām's-brother: this has become our disposition. The verse permits the bhakti-recognition: while able, do the daṇḍavata; the future is uncertain.
मराठी: हा कान्होबांचा निरोपाचा अभंग आहे. आपल्या दोघांना एकमेकांचे दर्शन आणि साधे बोलणेही आता दुर्मीळ झाले आहे. म्हणून आता मी हे करतो — तुम्ही सर्वांनी माझा दंडवत स्वीकारावा. या देहाचे पुढे काय होईल हे कुणास ठाऊक? तुकारामांचे बंधू म्हणतात — हाच आता आमचा भाव झाला आहे. या अभंगातून एक भक्तिपूर्ण जाणीव मिळते — शक्य असेल तोवर दंडवत घालावा, कारण भविष्य अनिश्चित आहे.
Where this applies
- NON-Tukārām composition — Tukyā-bandhu / Kānhōbā
- Farewell or distancing-text with mortality-undertone