Abhanga 4106
Real peace comes from placing every outcome, good or bad, fully in a higher power's hands and simply resting content wherever you are placed.
The verse
माझा घात पात अथवा हित फार । अवघा विचार तुझ्या हातीं ॥१॥
ठेवुनि जीव भाव तुझ्या ठायीं चित्त । राहिलों निवांत पांडुरंगा ॥ध्रु.॥
चित्ताचा चाळक बुद्धीचा जनिता । काय नाहीं सत्ता तुझे हातीं ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे काय करिसी तें पाहीन । ठेविसी राहीन सुखें तेथें ॥३॥
Literal translation
Ghāta-or-hita — all-in-your-hand. Placed-jīva-bhāva-chitta-at-feet — nivānta-Pāṇḍuranga. Chitta-chāḷaka-buddhi-janitā — all-sattā. Tukā: what-you-do-I-watch — wherever-you-keep-I-stay-sukhē.
What it means
A 3-verse total-handing-over text. Whether my downfall or fall or great welfare — the whole decision is in your hand. Placing life-state and mind at your place, I have remained silent, Pāṇḍuranga. The mover of chitta, the begetter of buddhi — what sovereignty is not in your hand? What you do, I'll watch; wherever you keep me, I'll stay happily. The complete handing-over — the very mover of chitta and begetter of buddhi is you, so I have nothing to decide. Pair with 3913 (Lord-the-true-actor), 3933 (body-is-Deva's-money).
For someone today
Tukaram surrenders every outcome of his life, whether ruin, misfortune, or great good, entirely into God's hands, saying the whole decision belongs there, not to him. He places his very life, feelings, and mind at Pandurang's feet and finds a deep quiet in that letting go, because the same power that moves the mind and shapes the intellect already holds everything else too. He closes by saying he will simply watch what happens and rest content wherever he is placed, showing that real peace comes from releasing the need to control every outcome.
मराठी: तुकाराम आपल्या आयुष्यातील प्रत्येक परिणाम, मग तो नाश असो, दुर्दैव असो किंवा मोठे भलेच असो, संपूर्णपणे देवाच्या हातात सोपवतात, आणि म्हणतात की सगळा निर्णय त्याच्याच हातात आहे, माझ्या नाही. ते आपले जीवन, भावना आणि मन पांडुरंगाच्या चरणी अर्पण करतात आणि या समर्पणातून त्यांना खोल शांती मिळते, कारण जी शक्ती मन चालवते आणि बुद्धी घडवते तीच शक्ती बाकी सगळेही सांभाळते. शेवटी ते म्हणतात की जे घडेल ते मी फक्त पाहीन आणि जिथे मला ठेवले जाईल तिथे समाधानाने राहीन, यातून हा बोध मिळतो की प्रत्येक गोष्टीवर ताबा ठेवण्याची गरज सोडून दिल्यानेच खरी शांती मिळते.
Where this applies
- When you are anxious about an outcome that is genuinely beyond your control
- When you keep trying to force a result instead of trusting the process you have already committed to
- When you want to feel at peace no matter where life places you
- When you need to let go of the exhausting need to control everything happening around you