Abhanga 4060
At the feet of the divine, nothing is lacking, and true abundance means letting go of chasing fleeting pleasures and turning your own home into paradise filled with devoted company.
The verse
काय उणें मज पांडुरंगा पायीं । रिद्धिसिद्धी ठायीं वोळगती ॥१॥
कोण पाहे सुखा नासिवंताकडे । तृष्णेचें बापुडें नहों आम्ही ॥ध्रु.॥
स्वर्गसुखें आम्हीं केलीं पावटणी । पापपुण्यें दोन्ही उलंडिलीं ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे घरीं आणिलें वैकुंठ । वसविली पेठ वैष्णवांची ॥३॥
Literal translation
No-uṇē-at-Pāṇḍuranga-feet — rddhi-siddhi-attend. Not-trṣṇā-bāpuḍē — naśivanta-sukha-rejected. Svarga-sukhas-stepping-stones — pāpa-puṇya-rolled-aside. Tukā: brought-Vaikuṇṭha-home — peopled-Vaiṣṇava-pēṭha.
What it means
A 3-verse bhakta-abundance text. What's lacking for me at Pāṇḍuranga's feet? — rddhi-and-siddhi attend at the station. Who looks toward perishable joys? — we are not thirst's helpless-petitioner. We've made the svarga-joys into stepping-stones; we've rolled aside pāpa-and-puṇya. I have brought Vaikuṇṭha home; I have peopled the market of the Vaiṣṇavas. Vaikuṇṭha-brought-home is the foundational claim: the bhakta doesn't need to go anywhere — Vaikuṇṭha comes to him. Pair with 2745 (Paṇḍharī-hāṭa), 3740 (Vaikuṇṭha-sukha-came-to-Paṇḍharī), 3988 (Nāma-naukā).
For someone today
Tukaram declares that at Pandurang's feet, he lacks nothing at all, because true abundance simply attends there on its own. He refuses to chase after fleeting pleasures, saying he is no longer the desperate beggar of endless craving. Even the joys of heaven, he says, have become mere stepping-stones for him, and he has stopped keeping score of his own sins and merits altogether. In the end he claims something bold: he has brought paradise itself into his own home, turning it into a gathering place full of fellow devotees.
मराठी: तुकाराम सांगतात की पांडुरंगाच्या पायाशी त्यांना काहीही कमी नाही, कारण खरी समृद्धी तिथे आपोआप हजर असते. ते क्षणभंगुर सुखांच्या मागे धावणे नाकारतात, आणि म्हणतात की ते आता तृष्णेचे केविलवाणे भिकारी राहिलेले नाहीत. स्वर्गसुखेदेखील त्यांच्यासाठी केवळ पाऊलवाटेचे दगड बनली आहेत, आणि त्यांनी स्वतःच्या पाप-पुण्याचा हिशोब ठेवणेही सोडून दिले आहे. शेवटी ते एक ठाम दावा करतात: त्यांनी वैकुंठच आपल्या घरी आणले आहे आणि आपले घर वैष्णव भक्तांनी भरलेली वस्ती बनवले आहे.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's brought-Vaikuṇṭha-home — peopled-Vaiṣṇava-pēṭha canonical
- Pair with 2745, 3740, 3988