Abhanga 3466
When a long yearning is finally fulfilled, the mind settles and rests the way shade brings relief to someone scorched by the sun.
The verse
बराडियाची आवडी पुरे । जया झुरे साटीं तें ॥१॥
तैसें जालें माझ्या मना । नुठी चरणावरूनि ॥ध्रु.॥
मागलिया पेणें पावे । विसांवे तें ठाकणीं ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे छाया भेटे । बरें वाटे तापे त्या ॥३॥
Literal translation
Barāḍiyā's-āvaḍī-fulfilled — for-what-he-pines. So-with-my-mana — doesn't-rise-from-feet. Earlier-pēṇa-reached — visāva-at-ṭhākaṇī. Tukā: chhāyā-meets — baravē-vāṭē-to-tāpa.
What it means
A 3-verse fulfillment-text. The vagabond gets what he pined for; my mind stays at your feet; the earlier-lodging-place is reached; like shade meeting the heat-stricken.
For someone today
Tukaram describes the deep relief of a long yearning finally satisfied, comparing it to a wanderer who at last gets what he has been pining for. His own mind, he says, has settled at Vitthal's feet and will not rise or wander off again. It is like reaching, at last, the resting place you set out toward long ago, or like shade finally falling on someone who has been scorched by the sun. This abhang captures that quiet, almost physical sense of ease when a long search for peace finally comes to an end.
मराठी: तुकाराम एका दीर्घकाळच्या ओढीच्या पूर्ततेचा गाढ दिलासा वर्णन करतात, ज्याची तुलना ते एका भटक्याला अखेर हवे ते मिळाल्याशी करतात. त्यांचे स्वतःचे मन विठ्ठलाच्या चरणांवर स्थिरावले आहे आणि पुन्हा उठून भटकणार नाही, असे ते सांगतात. हे जणू खूप आधीपासून ज्या विसाव्याच्या ठिकाणी पोहोचायचे होते तिथे अखेर पोहोचल्यासारखे आहे, किंवा उन्हाने होरपळलेल्या माणसाला सावली मिळाल्यासारखे आहे. शांतीचा दीर्घ शोध अखेर संपतो तेव्हा जो हलकासा, जवळजवळ शारीरिक आराम वाटतो, तोच हा अभंग टिपतो.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's barāḍiyā-pining-fulfilled canonical
- chhāyā-meets-tāpa image
- Companion to 3402, 2893 (barāḍī motif)