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Abhanga 3723

When the heart settles fully in God, ceaseless joy replaces restlessness, the sense of separate self dissolves, and the exhausting feeling of inner division falls away.

When you are so at peace or absorbed that you barely notice time passing or feel the need to rest.

When you catch your mind clinging to I and mine and wish for that grip to loosen.

When you feel tired not from work but from being pulled between conflicting parts of yourself.

The verse

हारपोनि गेली निशी । निद्रा कैसी न देखों ॥१॥ नारायणीं वसलें घर । निरंतर आनंद ॥ध्रु.॥ अवघा रुधविला ठाव । नेला वाव मी माझें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे एके ठावीं । असूं नाहीं सीनाभिन्न ॥३॥

Literal translation

Niśī-vanished — how-don't-see-nidrā. Nārāyaṇī-ghara-settled — nirantara-ānanda. Place-all-rudhavilā — mine-and-me-taken-vāva. Tukā: at-one-place-let-us-be — no-sīna-bhinna.

What it means

A 3-verse settled-state text. The night has vanished — how come I don't see sleep? In Nārāyaṇī, my house has settled, ceaseless ānanda; the whole place has been blocked-up, mine-and-me taken-as-void; at one place let us be — no fatigue-of-difference. Beautiful sleepless-ānanda image.

For someone today

Tukaram describes a state so full of joy that the night simply disappears and he cannot even find sleep, because his heart has settled permanently in God and feels ceaseless happiness there. In that state, the sense of I and mine gets swallowed up into emptiness, as if the whole space of his own separate self has been blocked off. What remains is a single, unified place to rest in, with no more tiredness that comes from feeling split or divided inside.

मराठी: तुकाराम अशा आनंदाच्या अवस्थेचे वर्णन करतात जिथे रात्र अशी हरवून जाते की झोपच सापडत नाही, कारण त्यांचे मन कायमचे देवामध्ये स्थिरावले आहे आणि तिथे त्यांना अखंड आनंद जाणवतो. त्या अवस्थेत मी आणि माझे ही भावना शून्यात विरघळून जाते, जणू स्वतःच्या वेगळेपणाची सगळी जागाच बंद झाली आहे. उरते ते फक्त एक स्थिर, एकसंध जागा जिथे विसावा मिळतो, आणि आतल्या फाटलेपणामुळे येणारा शीण उरत नाही.

Where this applies

When you are so absorbed in something meaningful that ordinary tiredness or sleep barely touches you
When you feel the constant tug of I and mine and wish it would finally settle down
When you find a state of mind so peaceful that the usual restlessness of daily thinking disappears
When you notice how much energy is drained by feeling inwardly divided or pulled in two directions

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