Abhanga 4304
Once grace clears away doubt, Tukaram pictures himself as a baby lovingly sung to sleep by the unstruck cosmic sound in his own true nature.
The verse
पांडुरंगें सत्य केला अनुग्रह । निरसोनि संदेह बुद्धिभेद ॥१॥
जीवशिवा सेज रचिली आनंदें । औठावे पदीं आरोहण ॥२॥
निजीं निजरूपीं निजविला तुका । अनुहाते बाळका हलरु गाती ॥३॥
Literal translation
Pāṇḍuranga-anugraha-satya — samdēha-buddhi-bhēda-removed. Jīva-śiva-sēja-ānanda — auṭhāvē-pada-ascended. Nijī-nija-rūpī-Tukā-asleep — anuhata-haḷaru-bāḷaka-sung.
What it means
A 3-verse canonical anugraha-jīvanmukta-tatpara text in third-person Tukā. Pāṇḍuranga has made his grace real — removing doubt and mental-division. For jīva-and-śiva, the marriage-bed is built in bliss — ascending to the 8th-step. In own-self, in own-form, Tukā has been put to sleep — the unstruck-sound sings lullabies to the baby. Three rare-images: (1) jīva-śiva-sēja-rachilī-ānanda (marriage-bed of jīva-and-śiva built in joy); (2) auṭhāvē-pada-ascended (the 8th-step of yoga = nirodha or final state); (3) anuhata-singing-lullabies-to-baby-Tukā — the unstruck-cosmic-sound becomes a mother's-lullaby to the bhakta-baby. Pair with 4289 (chinmaya-anjana-tatvamasi), 4279 (ripened-sēndha-Pāṇḍuranga-svayameva).
For someone today
Tukaram describes God's grace becoming real for him, clearing away every doubt and confused thinking. He pictures the union of the individual soul and God as a wedding bed built in joy, rising to the highest state a seeker can reach. Then he shows himself as a baby laid to sleep in his own true nature, with the unstruck, ever-present cosmic sound singing him a lullaby. It is a tender image of being completely cared for once doubt drops away, as gently and naturally as a mother settling her child to sleep.
मराठी: तुकाराम महाराज सांगतात की देवाची कृपा त्यांच्यासाठी खरीखुरी झाली आणि सर्व शंका व गोंधळलेला विचार दूर झाला. जीव आणि शिव यांचे मीलन ते आनंदाने सजवलेल्या शय्येसारखे वर्णन करतात, जी साधकाला मिळू शकणाऱ्या सर्वोच्च अवस्थेपर्यंत घेऊन जाते. मग ते स्वतःला एका बाळासारखे दाखवतात, जे स्वतःच्या खऱ्या स्वरूपात झोपवले गेले आहे, आणि सतत वाजणारा अनाहत नाद त्याला अंगाई गातो. शंका दूर झाल्यावर मिळणारी ही पूर्ण काळजी घेतली जाण्याची कोमल भावना आहे, जशी आई आपल्या मुलाला हळुवारपणे झोपवते.
Where this applies
- Tukārām's anugraha-jīvanmukta-tatpara — jīva-śiva-sēja, anuhata-lullaby canonical