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Abhanga 4077

Tukaram says everything he has comes from the strength found at God's feet, and that closeness tastes to him like drinking nectar, nothing else compares. He also accepts that whatever a person experiences, whether joy, sorrow, pain, or illness, belongs to that person alone as their own portion of life. So rather than fighting to control every outcome, he simply places his whole treasure, his trust and his hopes, at God's feet and lets that be enough.

When you succeed at something and pause to recognize the strength behind it isn't only your own

When you watch someone you love suffer and have to accept it is their own experience to go through

When you feel the pull to control everything and instead choose to place your trust somewhere deeper

The verse

आम्हां हें सकळ । तुझ्या पायांचें चि बळ ॥१॥ करूं अमृताचें पान । दुजें नेणों कांहीं आन ॥ध्रु.॥ जयाचा जो भोग । सुख दुःख पीडा रोग ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे देवा । तुझे पायीं माझा ठेवा ॥३॥

Literal translation

All-mine — your-feet's-baḷa. Drink-amrta — no-other. Whose-bhōga — his-bhōga — sukha-duḥkha-pīḍā-rōga. Tukā: at-your-feet — my-ṭhēvā.

What it means

A 3-verse at-feet text. All of our everything is the power of your feet. We drink amrta; we know nothing other. Whose enjoyment is his own — sukha-duḥkha, sickness-and-disease. O Deva — my savings is at your feet.

For someone today

मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात की त्यांच्याकडे जे काही आहे ते सर्व देवाच्या पायाशी असलेल्या बळामुळेच आहे, आणि ती जवळीक त्यांना अमृत प्यायल्यासारखी वाटते, त्यापुढे बाकी काहीच नाही. ते हेही मान्य करतात की प्रत्येकाच्या वाट्याला येणारा सुख, दुःख, पीडा किंवा रोग हा त्या माणसाचा स्वतःचा भोग असतो. त्यामुळे प्रत्येक गोष्ट नियंत्रित करण्याचा प्रयत्न करण्याऐवजी, ते आपला संपूर्ण ठेवा, आपला विश्वास आणि आशा, देवाच्या पायाशी ठेवतात आणि तेच पुरेसे मानतात.

Where this applies

When you want to take credit for your strength but sense it really comes from something beyond you
When you are trying to fix or take away someone else's suffering that is truly theirs to live through
When you feel torn about how much to control outcomes versus trusting things to a higher care
When you experience a moment of deep peace that feels better than any other pleasure you know

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