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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4050 of 4582

Abhanga 4050

Some suffering leaves no visible wound but still traps the voice and blocks every rescue, and naming it honestly is the first step out.

When you are in pain that no one else can see and you struggle to explain it.
When you feel too frozen or blocked to even ask for the help you need.
When your attempts to protect yourself seem to fail and leave you feeling mocked.

The verse

मायेचा मारिला अंगीं नाहीं घाव । दुःखें तरी लव धडधडी ॥१॥ न लभे हा काळ न सुटे हातींचा । न बोलवे वाचा खोडावली ॥ध्रु.॥ न पवे धांवणें न पवे चि लाग । न चलती माग धरावया ॥२॥ भेणें तरि अंगा लावियेल्या राखा । परी त्यासी वाखा करीतसे ॥३॥ तुका म्हणे नेदी हाका मारूं देवा । लोकापाठी हेवा लागलासे ॥४॥

Literal translation

Māyā struck — on body no wound — but duḥkha makes the trembling-flutter. Kāḷa not caught — doesn't leave from-hand; vāchā can't speak, locked. Running doesn't reach; the catch doesn't reach; no trail to hold. In-fear, smeared ashes on body — but (māyā) mocks it. Tukā says: (māyā) doesn't let me shout to Deva — envy has followed (the) people.

What it means

A 4-verse text on māyā's-invisible-attack: no-wound but-trembling-flutter; speech-locked; rescue-can't-reach; ashes-mocked; doesn't-let-shout-to-Deva.

For someone today

Māyā's blow leaves no visible wound but locks the voice and blocks rescue.

Where this applies