Abhanga 4182
Steady, patient longing combined with trust in the protector's own promise to protect is what carries a suffering person through.
The verse
बहु क्लेशी जालों या हो नरदेहीं । कृपादृष्टी पाहीं पांडुरंगा ॥१॥
पांडुरंगा सर्वदेवांचिया देवा । घ्यावी माझी सेवा दिनानाथा ॥ध्रु.॥
दिनानाथ ब्रिद त्रिभुवनीं तुझें । मायबापा ओझें उतरावें ॥२॥
उतरीं सत्वर पैलथडी नेई । पूर्णसुख देई पायांपाशीं ॥३॥
पायांपाशीं मज ठेवीं निरंतर । आशा तुझी फार दिवस केली ॥४॥
केली आस तुझी वाट मी पाहातों । निशिदिनीं ध्यातों नाम तुझें ॥५॥
नाम तुझें गोड स्वभक्ता आवडे । भक्तांलागीं कडे खांदा घेसी ॥६॥
घेसी खांद्यावरी खेळविसी लोभें । पाउल शोभे विटेवरि ॥७॥
विटेवरि उभा देखिलासी डोळां । मनाचा सोहळा पुरविसी ॥८॥
पुरवीं सत्वर त्रैलोक्यस्वामिया । मिठी घाली पायां तुका भावें ॥९॥
Literal translation
Very-klēśī-in-nara-dēha — krpā-drṣṭi-Pāṇḍurangā. Deva-of-all-devas — take-sevā-Dīnanātha. Dīnanātha-bhrida-tribhuvana — take-burden. Quickly-pailathaḍī — pūrṇa-sukha-at-feet. Near-feet-always — āsā-many-days. Watching-path — nāma-day-night-meditate. Nāma-gōḍa — bhaktas-on-shoulder-play. Viṭā-feet-saw — mana-sōhaḷā-fulfilled. Trailōkya-svāmī — miṭhī-on-pāya-Tukā-bhāvē.
What it means
A 9-verse chain-rhyme Dīnanātha-petition. Much-distressed in this human-body — look with grace, Pāṇḍurangā. Deva of all devas — take my service, Dīnanātha. Dīnanātha is your title in the three-worlds — mother-father, take down this burden. Take me quickly to the far-shore; give complete-joy at your feet. Keep me near feet always — I've held your hope for many days. I'm watching the path, day-and-night meditating your Name. Your Name is sweet, the bhakta loves it; you take bhaktas on your shoulder. On the shoulder you play with them lovingly; your foot shines on the brick. Standing on the brick I saw with the eye; you fulfil the mana-festival. Fulfil quickly, Trailōkya-svāmī — Tukā places his embrace on your feet, by bhāva. Dīnanātha-bhrida foundational: Dīnanātha is your sworn-name in the three-worlds, so the burden must come down. This is the formal bhrida-argument — invoking the Lord's title-of-vow as binding obligation.
For someone today
Tukārām describes being worn out by suffering in this human body and asks Pāṇḍuraṅga to look at him with grace. He reminds God that Dīnanātha, protector of the humble, is God's own sworn title across the three worlds, so it is only right that the burden be lifted. He says he has hoped and waited for many days, watching the path, meditating on the Name day and night, because the Name itself is sweet and God carries his devotees lovingly, like a father carrying a child on his shoulder. Seeing that beloved form standing on the brick fulfills what his heart has longed for. The lesson is that steady, patient longing paired with faith in a relationship's own promise, that the protector will act like a protector, is what sustains someone through suffering.
मराठी: तुकाराम या मानवी देहात थकवणाऱ्या दुःखाचे वर्णन करतात आणि पांडुरंगाला कृपादृष्टीने पाहण्याची विनवणी करतात. ते आठवण करून देतात की दीनानाथ, दीनांचा नाथ, हे तुझेच त्रिभुवनातील ब्रीद आहे, म्हणून हा भार उतरवणे योग्यच आहे. ते म्हणतात अनेक दिवस आशेने वाट पाहत आहे, रात्रंदिवस नामाचे ध्यान करत आहे, कारण नाम गोड आहे आणि देव आपल्या भक्तांना पित्याप्रमाणे प्रेमाने खांद्यावर घेतो. विटेवर उभे ते प्रिय रूप डोळ्यांनी पाहणे हेच मनाच्या ओढीची पूर्तता करते. यातून हा धडा मिळतो की स्थिर, धीराची ओढ आणि नात्याच्या स्वतःच्या वचनावरचा विश्वास, म्हणजे रक्षणकर्ता रक्षणकर्त्यासारखाच वागेल, हेच दुःखातून तारून नेते.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's Dīnanātha-bhrida-petition canonical