Abhanga 3631
After real cost and effort, hold firmly to what you have gained, drop laziness and forgetfulness and worry about others' opinions, and let that fulfillment settle permanently in your heart.
The verse
आतां येथें जाली जीवासवेंसाटी । होतें तैसें पोटीं फळ आलें ॥१॥
आतां धरिले ते नो सोडीं चरण । सांपडलें धन निजठेवा ॥ध्रु.॥
आतां हा अळस असो परता दुरी । नेदावी तें उरी उरों कांहीं ॥२॥
आतां याचा मज न व्हावा विसर । भरोनि अंतर राहों रूप ॥३॥
आतां लोकलाज नयो येथें आड । बहु जालें गोड ब्रम्हरस ॥४॥
तुका म्हणे आतां जन्म हा सफळ । अंतरीं गोपाळ स्थिरावला ॥५॥
Literal translation
Now-on-jīva-cost — fala-in-pōṭa-came. Won't-release-feet — nija-ṭhēvā-dhana-found. Aḷasa-stay-far — no-urī-leftover. No-visara — rūpa-fills-antara. No-lōka-lāja — brahma-rasa-very-gōḍa. Tukā: janma-saphaḷa — Gōpāḷa-stabilized-in-antara.
What it means
A 5-verse foundational resolution-state. Six "now-statements" mark a complete transition: (1) the fruit came at life-cost; (2) the dhana of nija-ṭhēvā is found, I won't release; (3) no more aḷasa; (4) no more forgetting; (5) no more lōka-lāja; (6) janma is fulfilled — Gōpāḷa is stabilized in the antara. Compare 3490 (one-stroke-emptied-installed-Pāṇḍuranga).
For someone today
Tukaram marks a turning point in his life with a series of firm resolutions. What he has gained cost him everything, and now that the fruit has finally ripened, he refuses to let go of the feet he is holding onto, because he has found a treasure that was truly his own all along. He resolves to banish laziness completely, to never again let himself forget God, and to stop worrying about what other people think of him. With all that settled, he says his birth has finally become worthwhile, because Gopal has taken a permanent, stable place inside his heart.
मराठी: तुकाराम आपल्या आयुष्यातील एक निर्णायक टप्पा अनेक ठाम निश्चयांतून मांडतात. जे त्यांना मिळाले ते सगळे किंमत मोजून मिळाले आहे, आणि आता ते फळ पिकल्यावर, ते धरलेले चरण सोडणार नाहीत, कारण त्यांना खरोखर स्वतःचाच असा खजिना सापडला आहे. ते ठरवतात की आळस पूर्णपणे दूर करायचा, देवाला पुन्हा कधीही विसरायचे नाही, आणि लोक काय म्हणतील याची काळजी करणे थांबवायचे. हे सगळे ठरल्यावर ते म्हणतात की त्यांचा जन्म आता सार्थक झाला आहे, कारण गोपाळ त्यांच्या अंतःकरणात कायमचा स्थिरावला आहे.
Where this applies
- When you reach a point where you finally refuse to let go of the good thing you have worked hard to hold onto
- When you are trying to shake off laziness and commit fully to a practice you have started
- When you are done worrying about what other people think and ready to follow your own conviction
- When you feel your life has finally become meaningful because something important has settled permanently within you