संत साहित्य
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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4118 of 4582

Abhanga 4118

When you fully surrender your whole self, the usual anxieties about gain and loss, right and wrong, self and other dissolve, and that single act of surrender becomes complete devotion in itself.

When you feel worn out from constantly weighing gains and losses, rights and wrongs
When the usual boundary between yourself and someone close to you starts to soften into one shared life
When you make one total commitment that feels like it settles everything else at once

The verse

पुण्यपापा ठाव नाहीं सुखदुःखा । हानिलाभशंका नासलिया ॥१॥ जिंता मरण आलें आप पर गेलें । मूळ छेदियेलें संसाराचें ॥ध्रु.॥ अधिकार जाती वर्णधर्मयाती । ठाव नाहीं सत्यअसत्याशी ॥२॥ जन वन भिन्न आचेत चळण । नाहीं दुजेपण ठाव यासी ॥३॥ तुका म्हणें देह वाईलें विठ्ठलीं । तेव्हां च घडली सर्व पूजा ॥४॥

Literal translation

No-ṭhāva-puṇya-pāpa — sukha-duḥkha-hāni-lābha-destroyed. Jīta-maraṇa-one — āpa-para-gone — samsāra-mūḷa-cut. Adhikāra-jāti-varṇa-yāti — no-ṭhāva-satya-asatya. Jana-vana-bhinna-no-duja. Tukā: gave-deha-to-Viṭṭhal — then-all-pūjā-came-true.

What it means

THE canonical 4-verse total-handing-over text. No place for puṇya or pāpa; sukha-duḥkha and gain-loss anxieties are destroyed. Life-and-death have come together; self-and-other have gone; the root of samsāra is cut. For adhikāra, jāti, varṇa-dharma — no place; nor for satya-asatya. People-and-forest, separate, with conscious-motion or not — no duality has place here. When I laid the body in Viṭṭhal — at that moment itself, all pūjā was done. Foundational: gave-deha = all-distinctions-dissolve; all-pūjā-already-done. Pair with 3932 (tana-mana-dhana-given), 3933 (body-is-Deva's-money), 4106 (all-in-your-hand).

For someone today

Tukaram describes a state where the usual scorekeeping of life falls away entirely, no more anxiety about right and wrong deeds, no more fear of loss or craving for gain, no more sharp line between pleasure and pain. Life and death start to feel like one continuous thing, the boundary between self and others dissolves, and even the deep root of everyday struggle is cut away. Distinctions of status, background, and even truth versus falsehood stop mattering, and people and wild places no longer feel separate from each other. He says the moment he offered his whole body and being to the divine, that single act itself became every form of worship there ever needed to be.

मराठी: तुकाराम अशा अवस्थेचे वर्णन करतात जिथे नेहमीचा हिशोब पूर्णपणे गळून पडतो, बरोबर-चूक कृत्यांची चिंता उरत नाही, तोटा किंवा फायद्याची भीती-आसक्ती उरत नाही, सुख आणि दुःखातील तीव्र फरकही उरत नाही. जीवन आणि मृत्यू एकाच सलग गोष्टीसारखे वाटू लागतात, स्वतः आणि इतर यांच्यातील सीमा विरघळून जाते, आणि रोजच्या धडपडीचे मूळच कापले जाते. दर्जा, जन्म, आणि अगदी सत्य-असत्यही महत्त्वाचे राहत नाही, आणि माणसे आणि रानटी जागा एकमेकांपासून वेगळ्या वाटेनाशा होतात. ते म्हणतात की ज्या क्षणी त्यांनी आपले संपूर्ण शरीर आणि अस्तित्व देवाला अर्पण केले, त्याच क्षणी ती एकच कृती म्हणजे आजवर लागणारी सगळी पूजा पूर्ण झाली.

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