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Abhanga 3375

When longing for God is real, it takes over the whole body, not just the mind, showing up as restlessness, tingling, and a hunger to simply see.

When you feel too restless to sit still while waiting for someone or something you long for

When your body reacts physically, goosebumps, a racing pulse, to strong emotion or longing

When you realize your eyes themselves ache just to see someone you love

The verse

मन उतावळि । जालें न राहे निश्चळ ॥१॥ दे रे भेटी पंढरिराया । उभारोनि चारी बाह्या ॥ध्रु.॥ सर्वांग तळमळी । हात पाय रोमावळी ॥२॥ तुकयाबंधु म्हणे कान्हा । भूक लागली नयना ॥३॥

Literal translation

Mana utāvaḷi — jāle na rāhe niścaḷa — mana has become impatient — won't stay still. De re bhēṭī Paṇḍhari-rāyā — ubhārōni chārī bāhyā — give darśana, Paṇḍharī-rāya — with four arms raised. Sarvānga taḷamaḷī — hāta pāya romāvalī — whole body tingles — hands, feet, the hair-line. Tukayā-bamdhu mhaṇe Kānhā — bhūka lāgalī nayanā — Tukyā-bamdhu (i.e., Kānhōbā) says: Kānhā — hunger has come to the eye.

What it means

NON-Tukārām: Kānhōbā's bhakti — written in the embodied-signs vocabulary of yearning. Mana-impatient, body-tingling, hair-standing-on-end, eye-hungry. The vocative Kānhā (Krishna) closes the verse — a brother's voice that uses Krishna-vocative more freely. Cluster-marker for the Tukyā-bamdhu corpus running through 3374-3377+.

For someone today

The body itself prays — when the longing is true. Tingling, restlessness, hunger of the eye: these are the language.

मराठी: खरी ओढ जेव्हा मनापासून असते, तेव्हा शरीरच प्रार्थना करू लागते. अंगावर रोमांच येणे, अस्वस्थता, आणि डोळ्यांना लागलेली भूक — हीच त्या ओढीची भाषा असते.

Where this applies

Companion to the Kānhōbā lament-cluster (2977-2997+) and Tukyā-bamdhu cluster (3374-3377+)
Family-circle bhakti