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Abhanga 3682

Once you truly trust that you are cared for like a child by a loving parent, fear and enmity toward the world naturally fall away.

When you notice your fear and anxious worry easing because you trust you're being looked after

When you stop viewing difficult people as enemies because you feel secure at a deeper level

When you rest in the sense that someone or something larger than you is handling your care

The verse

नाहीं मज कोणी उरला दुर्जन । मायबापाविण ब्रम्हांडांत ॥१॥ कासया जी माझी करणें येविसीं । भयाची मानसीं चिंता संतीं ॥ध्रु.॥ विश्वंभराचिये लागलों सांभाळीं । सत्तेनें तो चाळी आपुलिये ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे माझें पाळणपोषण । करितां आपण पांडुरंगा ॥३॥

Literal translation

No-durjana-left-except-māyabāpa. No-action-needed — no-bhaya-chintā. Fastened-to-Viśvambhara's-sāmbhāḷa — sattā-conducts. Tukā: my-pāḷaṇa-pōṣaṇa — you-do-Pāṇḍurangā.

What it means

A 3-verse resolution text. No durjana is left for me in the world except the divine-mother-father; I don't need to do anything; I'm fastened to Viśvambhara's care; you yourself do my care-and-feeding.

For someone today

Tukaram says that once he truly saw God as his own mother and father, no one in the whole world felt like an enemy to him anymore. He asks what he even needs to do himself, since there is no more fear or anxious worry left in his mind, only settled peace. He has fastened himself to the care of Vishvambhara, the sustainer of the universe, who governs everything by his own authority. He ends simply, saying that Panduranga himself takes care of him and feeds him, the way a parent looks after a child.

मराठी: तुकाराम सांगतात की एकदा त्यांनी देवाला खरोखर आपली आई-वडील म्हणून पाहिले, की या संपूर्ण जगात कोणीच त्यांना शत्रू वाटेनासे झाले. ते विचारतात की आता मला स्वतः काय करायचे आहे, कारण मनात आता भीती किंवा काळजी उरलेलीच नाही, फक्त स्थिर शांतता आहे. ते विश्वंभराच्या, या विश्वाच्या पालनकर्त्याच्या, काळजीशी जोडले गेले आहेत, जो सर्व काही स्वतःच्या सत्तेने चालवतो. शेवटी ते साधेपणाने सांगतात की पांडुरंग स्वतःच त्यांची काळजी घेतो आणि पोषण करतो, जसे आई-वडील मुलाची काळजी घेतात.

Where this applies

When you stop seeing people around you as enemies once you feel truly cared for at a deeper level
When constant worry finally lifts because you trust something larger is looking after you
When you realize you don't have to control every outcome because you're being taken care of
When you feel nourished and supported the way a child feels safe under a parent's care

Cosmology / Avatāra Autobiographical