Abhanga 3732
Tukaram realizes that his fear was really coming from his own sense of ego, his attachment to being a separate self, and once that burden was set aside, something shifted completely. Suddenly the whole world feels like his own home, and not even a trace of the fear of death remains. When he simply takes the name of the all-capable one, there is nothing left to worry about. He says that through Narayana, his whole life has become full of genuine happiness.
The verse
भय होतें आम्हीपणें । पाठी येणें घातलें ॥१॥
अवघा आपुला चि देश । काळा लेश उरे चि ना ॥ध्रु.॥
समर्थाचें नाम घेतां । मग चिंता काशाची ॥२॥
तुका म्हणें नारायणें । जालें जिणें सुखाचें ॥३॥
Literal translation
Bhaya-came-in-āmhī-paṇa — cast-on-pāṭhī. Whole-country-āpulā-chi — no-lēśa-of-Kāḷa. Taking-samartha-nāma — no-chintā. Tukā: Nārāyaṇa-jīṇa-sukhāchē.
What it means
A 3-verse fearless-text. Fear came along with my ego-sense — they cast it on my back. The whole country is now my own — not a trace of Kāḷa remains. When I take the samartha's Name, what worry? By Nārāyaṇa, life became full-of-sukha.
For someone today
Tukaram realizes that his fear was really coming from his own sense of ego, his attachment to being a separate self, and once that burden was set aside, something shifted completely. Suddenly the whole world feels like his own home, and not even a trace of the fear of death remains. When he simply takes the name of the all-capable one, there is nothing left to worry about. He says that through Narayana, his whole life has become full of genuine happiness.
मराठी: तुकारामांना जाणवते की त्यांची भीती खरी तर स्वतःच्या अहंकारातून, स्वतःला वेगळे मानण्यातून येत होती, आणि तो भार बाजूला ठेवल्यावर सगळेच बदलून जाते. अचानक अख्खे जग त्यांना आपलेच घर वाटू लागते, आणि मृत्यूच्या भीतीचा लवलेशही उरत नाही. समर्थाचे नाव घेतले की मग काळजी करण्यासारखे काहीच उरत नाही. ते म्हणतात की नारायणामुळे त्यांचे संपूर्ण जीवन खऱ्या सुखाने भरून गेले आहे.
Where this applies
- When you notice that most of your fear actually comes from clinging to your own ego and self-image
- When you feel unexpectedly at home somewhere, as if the whole world belongs to you instead of feeling foreign
- When the fear of death or loss quietly stops bothering you the way it used to
- When calling out to something greater than yourself takes away a worry you couldn't shake on your own