Abhanga 3694
When one true thing becomes enough, restless clinging to everything else burns away and the scattered mind finally gathers into peace.
The verse
हा गे हा चि आतां लाहो । माझा अहो विठ्ठला ॥१॥
दंडवत दंडवत । वेगळी मात न बोलें ॥ध्रु.॥
वेगळाल्या कोठें भागें । लाग लागें लावावा ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे केल्या जमा । वृत्तितमा भाजूनि ॥३॥
Literal translation
This-is-the-lāhō-Viṭhṭhalā. Daṇḍa-vata — won't-speak-other-māta. Where-else-attach-lāga. Tukā: kelyā-jamā — burnt-vrtti-tamā.
What it means
A 3-verse resolution. This itself is now the gain, Viṭhṭhal; I prostrate, prostrate, and won't speak any other talk; where else should I attach my clinging? I've gathered, burning the wandering-states.
For someone today
Tukaram arrives at a place of resolution, declaring that this alone, bowing before Vitthal, is now the only real gain worth having. He simply prostrates again and again, and says he will not speak of anything else, having nothing more to say. He asks himself plainly, where else should his mind go looking to attach itself, when this is enough? He ends by saying he has finally gathered himself together, having burned away the scattered, restless states of mind that used to pull him in different directions.
मराठी: तुकाराम एका ठाम निर्णयाप्रत पोहोचतात, सांगतात की विठ्ठलाला नमन करणे हाच आता खरा आणि एकमेव लाभ आहे. ते वारंवार नमस्कार करतात आणि म्हणतात की आता आणखी काही बोलण्यासारखे उरलेलेच नाही. ते स्वतःला थेट विचारतात, हेच पुरेसे असताना, मनाने आणखी कुठे जाऊन गुंतावे? शेवटी ते सांगतात की त्यांनी स्वतःला अखेर एकत्र आणले आहे, आधी वेगवेगळ्या दिशेने ओढणाऱ्या अस्वस्थ, विखुरलेल्या मनःस्थिती जाळून टाकून.
Where this applies
- When you finally stop chasing many goals and settle on the one thing that truly matters
- When a simple act of gratitude or reverence feels like enough, without needing anything more said
- When you notice your scattered attention finally gathering into one calm focus
- When you burn away old restless habits of mind that used to pull you in different directions