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Abhanga 3894

Tukārām's won't-distress-you-won't-ask-anything; released-āsa-of-all-fruits; just-once-give-bhēṭi-vōrasōnī-pōṭīm-ālingāvē canonical chitta-considerate prayer

The verse

स्वामीसी संकट पडे जे गोष्टीचें । काय त्या प्रेमाचें सुख मज ॥१॥ दुःखवीना चित्त तुझें नारायणा । कांहीं च मागेना तुजपासीं ॥ध्रु.॥ रिद्धि सिद्धि मोक्ष संपित्त विलास । सोडियेली आस याची जीवें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे एके वेळे देई भेटी । वोरसोनि पोटीं आलिंगावें ॥३॥

Literal translation

If-svāmī-samkaṭa — no-prema-sukha-for-me. Won't-pain-your-chitta — won't-ask. Released-āsa-of-rddhi-siddhi-mokṣa-sampatti-vilāsa. Tukā: once-give-bhēṭi — vōrasōnī-pōṭīm-ālingāvē.

What it means

A 3-verse chitta-considerate prayer. If even one matter puts my svāmī in distress, what joy of love can I have? I won't pain your mind, Nārāyaṇa — I won't ask anything. Rddhi-siddhi-mokṣa-wealth-pleasure — I have released hope for all these. Just once give me a meeting — let me embrace you, folding into the stomach-of-feeling. The image vōrasōnī-pōṭīm-ālingāvē (to-embrace-by-folding-into-stomach, to weep-and-embrace) is the most-tender bhakta-Lord-meeting image. Compare 2807 (don't-want-Vaikuṇṭha-mokṣa-sāyujya — same released-āsa-of-fruits doctrine).

For someone today

Tukārām: if-my-Lord-feels-distress-no-joy-for-me — won't-pain-your-mind — just-give-one-meeting-let-me-embrace-you.

Where this applies

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