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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3469 of 4582

Abhanga 3469

When you are worn out by endless argument and clever debate, ask directly for the compassionate one to come quickly and simply end your worry.

When you are exhausted by overthinking and endless argument that leads nowhere.
When something has overturned your usual way of managing life and you need help right away.
When you stop wanting clever answers and simply want your worry to end.

The verse

उसंतिल्या कर्मवाटा । बहु मोटा आघात ॥१॥ शीघ्र यावें शीघ्र यावें । हातीं न्यावें धरूनि ॥ध्रु.॥ भागलों या खटपटे । घटपटें करितां ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे कृपावंता । माझी चिंता खंडावी॥३॥

Literal translation

Karma-vāṭas-overturned — great-āghāta. Come-quickly-come-quickly — take-me-by-hand. Exhausted-by-khaṭa-paṭa — doing-ghaṭa-paṭa. Tukā: krpā-vantā — break-my-chintā.

What it means

A 3-verse petition with a rare-explicit reference to scholastic-disputation. Ghaṭa-paṭa (pot-and-cloth) are the standard objects used in Nyāya-syllogism examples; Tukārām is sharply distancing himself from philosophical-logician's-debates and asking for immediate rescue. Compare 3399 (sant-lakṣaṇa, bolāchē gaurava against double-bhāva talk).

For someone today

Tukaram admits he has taken a hard blow, his usual ways of coping overturned, and he cries out for God to come quickly and take him by the hand. He says he is worn out from endless struggle and the kind of clever pot-and-cloth logic-chopping that scholars love, the sort of abstract debate that never actually helps. He is not asking for a clever argument or another theory. He simply asks the compassionate one to come and put an end to his worry.

मराठी: तुकाराम कबूल करतात की त्यांना मोठा आघात झाला आहे, त्यांचे नेहमीचे कर्ममार्ग उलथून गेले आहेत, आणि ते देवाला लवकर येऊन हात धरून नेण्याची विनवणी करतात. ते म्हणतात की या खटपटीने, म्हणजे विद्वानांच्या घटपट या चतुर तर्कवादाने, ते पुरते थकले आहेत, कारण अशा वादविवादाने खरी मदत कधीच मिळत नाही. त्यांना आणखी एखादा हुशार युक्तिवाद किंवा सिद्धांत नको आहे. ते फक्त कृपावंताला येऊन आपली चिंता संपवण्याची विनंती करतात.

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