Abhanga 3569
When laziness and inner conflict have worn you down and willpower has failed, stop trying to fix yourself alone and simply ask to be carried and set free.
The verse
काय करूं मज नागविलें आळसें । बहुत या सोसें पीडा केली ॥१॥
हिरोनियां नेला मुखींचा उच्चार । पडिलें अंतर जवळी च ॥ध्रु.॥
द्वैताचिया कैसा सांपडलों हातीं । बहुत करती ओढाओढी ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे आतां आपुलिया सवें । न्यावें मज देवें सोडवूनि ॥३॥
Literal translation
Kāya karūm maja nāgavile āḷase — what to do — āḷasa has stripped me; bahuta yā sōse pīḍā kelī — much pīḍā has been done by this sōsa. Hirōnīyām nelā mukhīmchā uchchāra — the uchchāra of the mouth has been snatched; paḍile amtara javaḷī chi — an amtara fell, near (as you were). Dvaitāchiyā kaisā sāmpaḍalōm hātīm — how did I get caught in dvaita's hands; bahuta karatī ōḍhāōḍhī — many do tug-and-pull. Tukā mhaṇe ātām āpuliyā save — Tukā says: now with yourself; nyāve maja deve sōḍavūnī — take me, O Deva, by releasing.
What it means
A 3-verse lament: āḷasa-stripped-me-bare; the-mouth's-uchchāra (Name-saying) was-snatched; a gap-fell even-near-you; I-got-caught-in-dvaita's-hands; many-forces-tug — release-me, take-me-with-yourself. The bhakta names sloth-and-duality as forces that broke even javaḷīchā amtara — the gap-near-the-Lord.
For someone today
Tukārām admits here that sheer laziness has left him stripped bare and caused him real suffering — even the Name he used to speak has slipped from his mouth. A gap opened up between him and God even though God was right there close by, and he found himself caught in the grip of duality, pulled in many directions at once. So he doesn't try to fix this through willpower; he simply asks God to release him from it and take him along.
मराठी: तुकाराम इथे कबूल करतात की केवळ आळसाने त्यांना पार उघडे केले आहे आणि खूप पीडा दिली आहे — तोंडातला नामाचा उच्चारही हिरावला गेला आहे. देव जवळ असूनही मध्ये अंतर पडले, आणि द्वैताच्या हातात ते सापडले, अनेक शक्ती त्यांना ओढाओढी करत आहेत. म्हणून ते स्वतःच्या इच्छाशक्तीवर विसंबून राहत नाहीत, तर देवाला थेट विनवतात — मला यातून सोडव आणि आपल्यासोबत घेऊन जा.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's āḷasa-stripped-me; dvaita-caught-me; release-with-yourself lament
- Companion to anti-name-laziness (2744)