Abhanga 4026
Devotion can be as simple as loving the visible, tender form of God and asking, like a child pestering a parent, for it to stay close.
The verse
आवडे हें रूप गोजिरें सगुण । पाहातां लोचन सुखावलें ॥१॥
आतां दृष्टीपुढें ऐसा चि तूं राहीं । जों मी तुज पाहें पांडुरंगा ॥ध्रु.॥
लाचावलें मन लागलीसे गोडी । तें जीवें न सोडीं ऐसें जालें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे आम्ही केली जे लडिवाळी । पुरवावी आळी मायबापें ॥३॥
Literal translation
Love-this-saguṇa-rūpa-eyes-comforted. Stay-before-drṣṭi-Pāṇḍuranga. Mana-itchy-gōḍī — won't-leave. Tukā: child-laḍivāḷī — fulfill-āḷī-māyabāpēm.
What it means
A 3-verse childish-pestering text. I love this sweet saguṇa-form; my eyes are comforted seeing it. Stay before my gaze just so, as I look at you, Pāṇḍuranga. My mind is itchy-with-greed; sweetness has attached; this can't be let go by the soul. We have made this childish-pestering — fulfill our childlike-tantrum, mother-father. The image laḍivāḷī (a spoiled-child's coaxing / petulant claiming) is the bhakta's intimate-attitude. Pair with 3937 (send-bhātukēm).
For someone today
Tukaram describes falling completely in love with the visible, tender form of God, saying his eyes finally feel at rest just from looking at it. He asks that beloved form to simply stay right there in front of him, so he can keep gazing at Pandurang. His mind has grown greedy for this sweetness, so attached now that his very being cannot let it go. He compares his devotion to a child's stubborn, loving pestering of a parent, asking God to indulge this childlike insistence the way a mother or father would.
मराठी: तुकाराम सांगतात की देवाच्या सगुण, प्रेमळ रूपावर त्यांचे मन पूर्णपणे भाळले आहे, ते रूप पाहताच त्यांचे डोळे शांत, सुखावलेले वाटतात. ते त्या प्रिय रूपाला विनवणी करतात की ते तसेच त्यांच्यासमोर राहावे, म्हणजे ते पांडुरंगाकडे पाहत राहू शकतील. त्यांचे मन या गोडीसाठी हपापलेले आहे, इतके जडलेले की त्यांचा जीव ते सोडायला तयार नाही. ते स्वतःच्या भक्तीची तुलना एखाद्या हट्टी लडिवाळ मुलाशी करतात, जो आई-वडिलांकडे हट्ट धरतो, आणि देवाला विनंती करतात की त्यांनी हा लडिवाळपणा पुरवावा.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's sweet-saguṇa-rūpa; child-laḍivāḷī canonical
- Pair with 3937 (send-bhātukēm)