Abhanga 4175
If your trust is genuine and the one you trust has a reputation for saving the fallen, that reputation itself becomes the pledge you can hold them to.
The verse
तुझा भरवसा आम्हां । फार होता पुरुषोत्तमा ॥१॥
भवसागरसंकटीं । तारिशील जगजेठी ॥ध्रु.॥
नाम आदित्याचें झाड । त्याचा न पडे उजेड ॥२॥
सिलंगणीचें सोनें । त्यासीं गाहाण ठेवी कोण ॥३॥
तुका म्हणे देवा । ब्रिद सोडूनियां ठेवा ॥४॥
Literal translation
Tujhā bharavasā āmhām — phāra hōtā Puruṣōttamā — much trust we had in you, Puruṣōttama. Bhavasāgarasankaṭīm — tariśīla jagajeṭhī — in bhava-sāgara crisis — you will rescue (us), leader-of-the-world. Nāma ādityāche jhāḍa — tyāchā na paḍe ujeḍa — Name is the sun-tree — its uǰeḍa (radiance) does not fall (away). Silangaṇīche sōne — tyāsīm gāhāṇa ṭhevī kōṇa — Daśarā-festival gold — who pawns it. Tukā mhaṇe devā — brida sōḍūniyām ṭhevā — Tukā says: Deva — leave your brida (oath/insignia) and keep-it-aside.
What it means
A 4-verse trust-in-rescue text. We-trusted-much-Puruṣōttama; you-will-rescue-in-bhava-sāgara-crisis; Name-is-the-sun-tree-its-radiance-falls-everywhere; Daśarā-festival-gold (śilangaṇa-festival-aapṭā-leaves-as-gold) isn't-for-pawning; Lord-set-aside-your-brida-(of-patita-pāvana)-as-pledge. The śilangaṇī sōne is the ritual-gold of Vijayādaśamī (aapṭā-leaves treated as gold and exchanged) — a Marathi cultural-specific image.
For someone today
Tukārām tells God plainly that he has placed enormous trust in him, and expects to be carried through the crisis of worldly existence because that is what a true protector does. He compares the Name to a sun-tree whose light never fails, and reminds God that the ritual gold used at festivals is never something you pawn away for cheap gain. In the same way, God's own reputation as the savior of the fallen is the one thing he cannot set aside. The lesson is that when you commit your trust fully to something sacred, you can hold it to its own promise, the way you would never trade away something whose whole worth is that it is not for sale.
मराठी: तुकाराम देवाला स्पष्टपणे सांगतात की त्यांनी त्याच्यावर खूप विश्वास ठेवला आहे, आणि भवसागराच्या संकटातून तोच तारेल अशी अपेक्षा आहे, कारण खरा तारणहार असेच करतो. ते नामाची तुलना सूर्यवृक्षाशी करतात, ज्याचा प्रकाश कधीच मावळत नाही, आणि आठवण करून देतात की सणासुदीचे सोने कधी गहाण ठेवले जात नाही. त्याचप्रमाणे, पतितपावन असण्याची देवाची स्वतःचीच प्रतिज्ञा ही अशी गोष्ट आहे जी तो बाजूला सारू शकत नाही. यातून हा धडा मिळतो की जेव्हा तुम्ही एखाद्या पवित्र गोष्टीवर पूर्ण विश्वास ठेवता, तेव्हा तिच्याच वचनाला धरून राहण्याचा तुम्हाला हक्क असतो.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's brida-as-pledge; Name-is-sun-tree canonical
- Companion to 2909 (Name-as-sikkā) and 4175