Abhanga 4023
The verse
पावलों हा देह कागतालिन्यायें । न घडे उपायें घडों आलें ॥१॥
आतां माझीं खंडीं देह देहांतरें । अभय दातारें देऊनियां ॥ध्रु.॥
अंधळ्याचे पाठीं धनाची चरवी । अघटित तेंवि घडों आलें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे योग घडला बरवा । आतां कास देवा न सोडीं मी ॥३॥
Literal translation
Got-deha-kāgatāli-nyāya — unattainable-by-upāya — came-on-its-own. Cut-deha-dehāntara — abhaya-dātāra. Aghaṭita — like-treasure-on-blind's-back. Tukā: fine-yoga-happened — won't-let-go-Deva's-kāsa.
What it means
★ A 3-verse accidental-bhakti text. I got this body by the crow-and-palm-fruit principle (an accidental coincidence); what couldn't happen by effort came on its own. Now my (multiple) bodies-and-rebirths are cut — by the abhaya from the giver. As a stream of money falls upon a blind man's back — unexpected — it has happened. A fine union has come about; I won't let go of Deva's waist-cloth. Kāgatāli-nyāya: the classical Sanskrit principle where a crow sits on a palm-tree precisely as the palm-fruit falls — pure coincidence, but appears causal. Tukārām attributes his own bhakti-finding to this kind of windfall — not earned, just-happened. The treasure-on-blind-man's-back is a related image of accidental-unexpected-gain.
For someone today
Tukārām: bhakti-came-to-me-by-accident-not-by-effort; like-treasure-falling-on-blind-back — now-I-won't-let-go-of-Deva.
Where this applies
- ★ Tukārām's kāgatāli-nyāya bhakti-as-windfall canonical
- aghaṭita-yoga unexpected-conjunction