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Abhanga 3356

When devotion becomes complete, sorrow and the feeling of separation disappear entirely, and the sacred is seen filling the whole world.

When a wave of deep peace washes over you and your worries simply dissolve.

When you start noticing something sacred or meaningful in ordinary surroundings rather than only in special places.

When you speak to someone you love with simple, unguarded words instead of careful, formal ones.

The verse

तेणें सुखें माझें निवालें अंग । विठ्ठल हें जग देखियेलें ॥१॥ कवतुकें करुणा भाकीतसें लाडें । आवडी बोबडें बोलोनियां ॥ध्रु.॥ मज नाहीं दशा अंतरीं दुःखाची । भावना भेदाची समूळ गेली ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे सुख जालें माझ्या जीवा । रंगलें केशवा तुझ्या रंगे ॥३॥

Literal translation

Teṇe sukhe mājhe nivāle anga — by that sukha, my anga cooled; Viṭhṭhala he jaga dekhiyele — saw Viṭhṭhala as this jaga. Kavatuke karuṇā bhākītasēm lāḍe — with delight, I plead karuṇā with lāḍa; āvaḍī bōbaḍe bōlōnīyām — with āvaḍī, lisping. Maja nāhī daśā antarīm duḥkhāñcī — no daśā of duḥkha in antara; bhāvanā bhedāñcī samūḷa gelī — bheda-bhāvanā gone samūḷa. Tukā mhaṇe sukha jāle mājhyā jīvā — Tukā says: sukha came to jīva; rangale Keśavā tujhyā range — colored by Keśava's ranga.

What it means

A 3-verse non-dual realization. Anga-cooled-by-sukha; jaga-itself-seen-as-Viṭhṭhal; no-duḥkha-in-antara; bheda-bhāvanā-gone-root-and-all.

For someone today

Tukaram describes a joy so complete that his whole body feels cooled and at peace, saying he now sees Viththal in the entire world around him, not confined to one place or form. He pleads with the tenderness of a child, using loving, almost lisping words, delighted rather than desperate. There is no trace of sorrow left inside him, and the sense of separation between himself and the divine has vanished completely, down to the root. He ends by saying his whole being has been colored through and through by Keshava's presence, as if dyed in that color permanently.

मराठी: तुकाराम इतका पूर्ण आनंद वर्णन करतात की त्यांचे संपूर्ण शरीर शांत आणि थंड झाल्यासारखे वाटते, ते म्हणतात की आता त्यांना विठ्ठल संपूर्ण जगात दिसतो, एका ठिकाणी किंवा रूपात मर्यादित नाही. ते लहान मुलासारख्या प्रेमळपणाने, जवळजवळ बोबड्या शब्दांत विनवणी करतात, हताश नव्हे तर आनंदाने भरलेले. त्यांच्या मनात दुःखाचा कुठलाही लवलेश उरलेला नाही, आणि स्वतःमध्ये आणि देवामध्ये वेगळेपणाची जाणीव मुळापासून नाहीशी झाली आहे. शेवटी ते सांगतात की त्यांचे संपूर्ण अस्तित्व केशवाच्या रंगाने पूर्णपणे रंगून गेले आहे, जणू कायमचे त्या रंगात रंगले आहे.

Where this applies

When someone experiences a moment of such deep peace that all their sorrow simply melts away
When a person starts seeing something sacred in the ordinary world around them rather than only in a special place
When you express deep love with simple, unguarded, almost childlike words instead of formal language
When someone realizes the sense of separation between themselves and what they love has completely disappeared