Abhanga 3379
Tukaram says he has found real contentment right here, at the feet of the sants, and that this place does not decay or fade the way other things do. Once he found it, he stopped wanting to move on or search anywhere else, and all his anxiety simply lifted. He says even his body feels cooled and soothed just by the dust from the sants' feet touching him, a sign that this rest is not just mental, it is felt all through the body.
The verse
सुखवाटे ये चि ठायी । बहु पायीं संतांचें ॥१॥
म्हणऊनि केला वास । नाहीं नास ते ठायीं ॥ध्रु.॥
न करवे हाली चाली । निवारिली चिंता हे ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे निवे तनु । रजकणु लागती ॥३॥
Literal translation
Sukha-vāṭe ye-chi ṭhāyī — bahu pāyīm samtāmche — sukha is found right here — at the many feet of sants. Mhaṇauni kelā vāsa — nāhī nāśa te ṭhāyīm — therefore I made dwelling — no nāśa in that place. Na karave hālī chālī — nivāriliī chimtā he — cannot stir or move — this chimtā is removed. Tukā mhaṇe nive tanu — rajakaṇu lāgatī — Tukā says: the body cools — when dust-particles touch (me).
What it means
A 3-verse text on sant-pāya-rajakaṇa (sants'-feet-dust). The bhakta finds sukha right here — and refuses to move; the place is anāśa (without-decay), chimtā removed, body cooled by dust-grains.
For someone today
Tukaram says he has found real contentment right here, at the feet of the sants, and that this place does not decay or fade the way other things do. Once he found it, he stopped wanting to move on or search anywhere else, and all his anxiety simply lifted. He says even his body feels cooled and soothed just by the dust from the sants' feet touching him, a sign that this rest is not just mental, it is felt all through the body.
मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात की त्यांना खरं समाधान इथेच, संतांच्या पायाशी सापडलं आहे, आणि ही जागा इतर गोष्टींसारखी कधी क्षीण किंवा नष्ट होत नाही. एकदा ते सापडलं की त्यांना पुढे शोधत जाण्याची किंवा हलण्याची गरज उरली नाही, आणि त्यांची सगळी चिंता दूर झाली. ते म्हणतात की संतांच्या पायांची धूळ अंगाला लागताच त्यांचं शरीरही शांत आणि थंड होतं, हे दाखवतं की ही विश्रांती फक्त मनातली नाही, ती संपूर्ण शरीराला जाणवते.
Where this applies
- Canonical sant-feet-dust; rajakaṇu-cools-body text
- Companion to 2887 (sant-pūjā warrant)