Abhanga 3854
When your effort and good sense finally align at the right moment and bring you close to something good, the struggle that came before it turns out to have been worth it.
The verse
बरवी हे वेळ सांपडली संधि । साह्य जाली बुद्धि संचितासी ॥१॥
येणें पंथें माझीं चालिलीं पाउलें । दरुषण जालें संतां पायीं ॥ध्रु.॥
त्रासिलें दरिद्रें दोषा जाला खंड । त्या चि काळें पिंड पुनीत जाला ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे जाला अवघा व्यापार । आली वेरझार फळासी हे ॥३॥
Literal translation
Baravī he veḷa sāmpaḍalī samdhi — the right time has come, samdhi; sāhya jālī buddhi samchitāsī — buddhi has aided samchita. Yeṇe pamthe mājhīm chālilim pāulen — on this path my feet walked; daruṣaṇa jāle samtām pāyīm — darśana happened at sants' feet. Trāsile daridre dōṣā jālā khamḍa — troubling by dāridra, dōṣa broken; tyā chi kāḷe piṇḍa punīta jālā — at that time piṇḍa became punīta. Tukā mhaṇe jālā avaghā vyāpāra — Tukā says: whole vyāpāra done; ālī verz̄hāra phaḷāsī he — verz̄hāra came to phaḷa.
What it means
A 3-verse gratitude text. Right-time, buddhi-aiding-samchita; feet-on-path; sants'-darśana; troubles-ended; piṇḍa-purified; vyāpāra-completed at-fruit.
For someone today
Tukārām's gratitude at-the-fruit: the whole business comes to fruit; back-and-forth has yielded.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's right-time-came; vyāpāra-completed gratitude