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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4364 of 4582

Abhanga 4364

The verse

आले सुरवर नानापक्षी जाले । सकळ अवतरले श्वापदवेषें ॥१॥ श्वानखररूपी होऊनियां आले । उच्छष्टि कवळ वेचिताति ॥ध्रु.॥ होऊनियां दीन हात पसरिती । मागोनियां घेती उष्टावळी ॥२॥ अभिमान आड घालोनि बाहेरि । तयां म्हणे घ्या रे धणी ॥३॥ तुका म्हणे धणी लाधली अपार । तया सुखा पार काय सांगों ॥४॥

Literal translation

Suras-became-birds — all-avatāra-as-śvāpadas. Śvāna-khara-rūpa — uchchhiṣṭa-kavaḷa-pick-up. Became-dīna-stretching-hand — uṣṭa-vaḷī. Hari-says-take-as-much — abhimāna-cast-out. Tukā: apāra-dhaṇī-found — sukha-no-pār.

What it means

★★ Verse-3 of 5-abhang Krṣṇa-pastoral-meal cluster. The best-of-devas came, having become birds of various kinds — all descended in the guise of wild-animals. Becoming in the form of dogs and donkeys, they came — and picked up the mouthful of leftover-food. Becoming lowly, they stretch out their hands — asking and taking the leftover-line. Casting pride aside outside, (Hari) says to them: take, take your fill. Tukā says: they found boundless fill — what limit of that joy can I tell? The remarkable inversion: cosmic-devas humble-themselves to animal-forms in-order-to-get-uchchhiṣṭa from-the-pastoral-meal. abhimāna-āḍa-ghālōni-bāhēri (casting-pride-aside-outside) is the precondition for receiving the gōpāḷa-uchchhiṣṭa.

For someone today

Tukārām: even-cosmic-devas-take-animal-forms to-get-the-leftovers-of-Krṣṇa's-friends; pride-must-be-cast-out-completely to-receive-the-Lord's-fill.

Where this applies

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