Abhanga 4089
The verse
संतांचा पढीयावो कैशापरि लाहो । नामाचा आठवो कैसा राहे ॥१॥
हे चि थोर चिंता लागली मनासी । निजतां निद्रेसी न लगे डोळा ॥ध्रु.॥
जेवितां जेवणीं न लगे गोड धड । वाटतें काबाड विषयसुख ॥२॥
ऐसिया संकटीं पाव कृपानिधी । लावीं संतपदीं प्रेमभावें ॥३॥
तुका म्हणे आम्हीं नेणों कांहीं हित । तुजविण अनाथ पांडुरंगा ॥४॥
Literal translation
How-attain-santas-paḍhī — how-Nāma-āṭhavō-stays. Thōra-chinta — no-sleep-in-eyes. Eating-no-gōḍa — viṣaya-sukha-burden. In-sankaṭa-krpā-niḍhi — attach-santa-pada-prema-bhāva. Tukā: don't-know-hita — anātha-without-you.
What it means
A 4-verse seeking-santa-love prayer. How is the santas' love to be gained? How does Name's memory stay? This great worry has settled on my mind; while sleeping, the eye doesn't catch sleep. Eating, the food doesn't taste sweet-and-fresh; viṣaya-joy feels like a heavy burden. In such distress, come, ocean-of-compassion; attach me at the santa-pada with love-state. We know nothing of our welfare — without you, orphan, Pāṇḍuranga. The body-symptoms (sleeplessness, no taste, viṣaya-as-burden) describe the post-bhakti-loss-of-worldly-appetite state.
For someone today
Tukārām: how-to-attain-santas'-love; the-worry-takes-away-sleep-and-taste; attach-me-to-santa-pada-with-love.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's how-attain-santa-love; viṣaya-as-burden; attach-to-santa-pada canonical petition