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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4422 of 4582

Abhanga 4422

Hand-held — lāja-yours-Deva.

The verse

हातीं धरिलियाची लाज । देवा असोंदे गा तुज ॥१॥ आहें अमंगळ दुर्बळ । होई दीन तूं दयाळ ॥ध्रु.॥ बाळ सेंबडें मातेसि । काय नावडे तियेसि ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे जाणें । करोनि देहाचें सांडणें ॥३॥

Literal translation

Hand-held — lāja-yours-Deva. Amangaḷa-durbaḷa — be-dīna-dayāḷa. Snotty-baby — mother-still-loves. Tukā: knowing — leave-deha.

What it means

★ A 3-verse hand-held-bhrida text. The lāja of having held (my) hand — Deva, let it be (your concern). I am inauspicious, weak — be a friend-of-the-low, gracious-one. A snotty-faced baby — what (in him) doesn't the mother love? Tukā says: I know — the leaving-of-body (will happen in your care). The image bāḷa-sēmbaḍē-mātēsi-kāya-nāvaḍē: what is there in a snotty-faced baby that the mother does not love? — striking unconditional-mother's-love image, applied to Lord-as-mother accepting-the-inauspicious-bhakta.

For someone today

Tukārām: you-have-held-my-hand-its-shame-is-yours-now; even-a-snotty-baby-the-mother-still-loves; I-leave-this-body-in-your-care.

Where this applies

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