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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 3662 of 4582

Abhanga 3662

When you have done all you can but fear outside forces could still undo it, it is honest to cry out urgently for help rather than face it alone.

When you sense an ending closing in and reach out for someone to hold onto you.
When you realize you have done everything in your power and the rest is out of your hands.
When real fear moves you to ask urgently for help instead of staying silently stoic.

The verse

आतां सोडवणें न या नारायणा । तरि मी न वंचे जाणा काळा हातीं ॥१॥ ऐसें सांगोनिया जालों उतराईं । आणीक तें काईं माझे हातीं ॥ध्रु.॥ केलियाचें माप नये सेवटासी । करितील नासि अंतराय ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे भय वाटतसे जीवा । धांवणिया धांवा लवकरी ॥३॥

Literal translation

Don't-release-me-Nārāyaṇa — else-Kāḷa-grabs. Saying-this-utarāī — what-else-in-hands. What's-done-māpa-doesn't-reach-end — antarāyas-make-nāśa. Tukā: bhaya-in-jīva — run-quickly.

What it means

A 3-verse rescue-petition. Now don't release me, Nārāyaṇa — else I'll be caught by Kāḷa; saying this I've fulfilled my obligation; the measure of my doings won't reach the end; obstacles will undo it; fear is in my jīva — come quickly.

For someone today

Tukaram begs God not to let go of him now, warning that otherwise death will simply take him. Having spoken this plainly, he feels he has done all that is truly in his own hands, there is nothing more he can add. He admits that his own efforts alone will not carry him to the end, obstacles can still undo everything he has built. Real fear rises in him, so he cries out for help urgently, right now, not later.

मराठी: तुकाराम देवाला विनवतात, आता माझा हात सोडू नकोस, नाहीतर मृत्यू मला घेऊन जाईल. हे स्पष्टपणे सांगितल्यावर त्यांना वाटते की आपल्या हातात जे होते ते त्यांनी केले आहे, यापुढे अधिक काही करता येणार नाही. आपल्या एकट्याच्या प्रयत्नांनी शेवटपर्यंत पोहोचता येणार नाही, अडथळे सगळे उद्ध्वस्त करू शकतात हे ते मान्य करतात. मनात खरी भीती दाटून येते, त्यामुळे ते तातडीने, आत्ताच मदतीसाठी हाक मारतात, नंतर नव्हे.

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