Abhanga 4380
The divine answers you according to how your own mind conceives and longs for it, meeting your specific inner need with real contentment rather than leaving you searching.
The verse
ज्याचें जैसें भावी मन । त्यासि देणें दरुषण ॥१॥
पुरवूं जाणे मनिंची खूण । समाधान करोनि ॥ध्रु.॥
आपणियातें प्रगट करी । छाया वरी कृपेची ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे केले दान । मन उन्मन हरिनामीं ॥३॥
Literal translation
Whose-mana-bhāvī-what — that-darśana-given. Fulfils-mana-khūṇa — samādhāna-made. Manifests-himself — krpā-chāyā-over. Tukā: dāna-made — mana-unmanī-in-Hari-Nāmīm.
What it means
A 3-verse bhāvī-darśana-doctrine text. According to whose mind intends what — to that one (he) gives the darśana. He knows how to fulfil the sign of the mind, making contented-settling. He manifests himself, (spreading) the shade of krpā over (you). Tukā says: the gift has been made — the mind becomes beyond-mind in the Hari-Nāma. The doctrine: Lord's-darśana-shapes-itself-to-the-bhakta's-bhāvī — Lord matches the mode-of-the-bhakta's-intention. The closing mana-unmanī-in-Hari-Nāmīm is the yoga-state-by-Name — the mind-transcends-itself-into-the-state-beyond-mind via the Name.
For someone today
Tukaram says that God reveals himself to each person in exactly the form and way that person's own mind has conceived and longed for. God knows how to answer the deepest sign or longing carried inside your mind, and in doing so brings real contentment rather than leaving you searching. He shows himself gently, spreading a shade of grace over you rather than overwhelming you. Tukaram closes by saying this is itself the real gift, that through repeating the Name your mind eventually settles beyond its own restless chatter into a quiet, transcendent peace.
मराठी: तुकाराम म्हणतात की प्रत्येकाचे मन जसे कल्पना करते, जसे झुरते, त्याचरूपात देव त्याला दर्शन देतो. तुमच्या मनातील खोल खूण, आस, तो जाणतो आणि तिला पूर्ण करून खरे समाधान देतो, तुम्हाला शोधतच ठेवत नाही. तो हळुवारपणे स्वतःला प्रकट करतो, तुमच्यावर कृपेची सावली धरतो, दडपून टाकत नाही. तुकाराम शेवटी सांगतात की हीच खरी देणगी आहे — नामस्मरण करत राहिल्याने मन आपल्याच अस्वस्थ चंचलतेच्या पलीकडे जाऊन शांत, उन्मन अवस्थेत स्थिरावते.
Where this applies
- When you wonder whether your particular way of imagining or praying to the divine is valid
- When you feel unseen and long for something to actually answer the specific longing inside you
- When you experience a quiet, gentle sense of grace rather than a dramatic or overwhelming one
- When steady repetition of the Name gradually settles a restless, chattering mind into real peace