संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3587 of 4582

Abhanga 3587

Real trust does not require pretending to be fine with endless waiting, you are allowed to honestly ask someone to stop delaying and act.

When you feel stuck circling back to the same anxious thoughts despite doing the inner work.

When you sense someone understands your situation but is acting as if they don't.

When you have already done your part and are still waiting for someone else to follow through.

The verse

वृत्तीवरि आम्हां येणें काशासाटीं । एवढी हे आटी सोसावया ॥१॥ जाणतसां परी नेणते जी देवा । भ्रम चि बरवा राखावा तो ॥ध्रु.॥ मोडूनि क्षरलों अभेदाची मूस । तुम्हां कां अळस वोडवला ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे होई लवकरि उदार । लांबणीचें फार काम नाहीं ॥३॥

Literal translation

Vrttīvari āmhām yeṇe kāśāsāṭīm — why this coming back to vrtti to us; evaḍhī he āṭī sōsāvayā — to bear such āṭī. Jāṇatasām parī neṇate jī devā — (you) know, yet feign not-knowing, O Deva; bhrama chi baravā rākhāvā tō — is delusion the thing to be kept. Mōḍūnī kṣaralōm abhedāchī mūsa — (I) have broken and leaked out the mould of abheda; tumhām kām aḷasa vōḍavalā — why has aḷasa settled on you. Tukā mhaṇe hōī lavakari udāra — Tukā says: become udāra quickly; lāmbaṇīche phāra kāma nāhīm — not much work of long-stretching.

What it means

A 3-verse impatient bhakta-rebuke-to-the-Lord. Why-am-I-coming-back-to-mental-modifications and-bearing-this-strain; you-know but-pretend-not-to-know — should-the-delusion-be-kept; I've-broken-the-mould-of-abheda and-leaked-out — why-has-aḷasa fallen-on-you; quickly-become-generous, no-need-for-long-stretching. The mūsa (mould) of abheda — the crucible in which the bhakta is being-cast.

For someone today

The bhakta is allowed to call-out divine-delay: become-quickly-udāra; the work-itself isn't-actually-long. Persistent-stretching can begin to feel like the Lord's own aḷasa.

Where this applies

Tukārām's Lord's-sloth-rebuke; become-quickly-udāra impatient prayer
Companion to 3584-3586 (chāḷavaṇī-protest cluster)