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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 4445 of 4582

Abhanga 4445

The sacred isn't confined to a special place, it can fill your sight completely so that everywhere you look, it's equally present.

When you catch yourself searching far and wide for something that's actually right in front of you.
When ordinary surroundings suddenly feel filled with meaning rather than mundane.
When you stop treating the sacred as occasional and start noticing it as constantly present.

The verse

जिकडे पाहें तिकडे उभा । अवघ्या गगनाचा गाभा॥ १ ॥ डोळां बैसलें बैसलें । रूप राहोनि संचलें ॥ध्रु.॥ न वर्जितां दाही दिशा । जिकडे पाहें तिकडे सरिसा ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे समपदीं । उभा दिठीचिये आधीं ॥३॥

Literal translation

Wherever-look-stands — gābhā-of-gagana. Sat-in-eye — rūpa-samchalē. Doesn't-vacate-10-directions — wherever-look-equal. Tukā: sama-padī — standing-before-drṣṭi.

What it means

A 3-verse Lord-omnipresence text. Wherever I look, he stands — the kernel of the whole sky. Sat in my eye, stayed — his form, remaining, has filled (me). Without vacating the ten directions — wherever I look, he is equally there. Tukā says: he stands on equal-step — standing before sight.

For someone today

Tukārām describes a state where wherever he turns his eyes, he finds God standing there, at the very core of the whole sky. That form has settled into his eye and filled him completely, not withdrawing from any of the ten directions, so that everywhere he looks, God is equally present. There's no special place he has to go or search harder to find the divine, it simply stands right in front of his sight at every moment. This is a picture of a mind that has stopped treating God as something distant or occasional and instead finds the sacred woven into everything it perceives.

मराठी: तुकाराम अशा एका अवस्थेचे वर्णन करतात जिथे ते जिकडे नजर वळवतात तिकडे देव उभा असलेला दिसतो, संपूर्ण आकाशाच्या अगदी गाभ्यात. ते रूप त्यांच्या डोळ्यांत स्थिरावले आहे आणि त्यांना पूर्णपणे व्यापून टाकले आहे, दाही दिशांतून ते कुठेही सुटलेले नाही, त्यामुळे ते जिकडे पाहतात तिकडे देव सारख्याच प्रमाणात उपस्थित आहे. देव शोधण्यासाठी त्यांना कुठे विशेष जावे लागत नाही किंवा जास्त प्रयत्न करावा लागत नाही, तो त्यांच्या नजरेसमोर प्रत्येक क्षणी उभाच असतो. देवाला दूरचे किंवा अधूनमधून भेटणारे काहीतरी मानणे थांबवून, आपल्याला दिसणाऱ्या प्रत्येक गोष्टीत पवित्रता विणलेली सापडणाऱ्या मनाचे हे चित्र आहे.

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