Abhanga 4461
Handing the results of your life, good and bad, over to God and keeping his feet remembered in your heart is what clears worry and brings real ease.
The verse
होई आतां माझ्या भोगाचा भोगिता । सकळ अनंता शुभाशुभ ॥१॥
आठवुनी पाय राहिलों हृदयीं । निवारली तई सकळ चिंता ॥ध्रु.॥
अचळ न चळे देहाचें चळण । आहे हें वळण प्रारब्धें चि ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे जालें एक चि वचन । केलिया कीर्तन आराणुक ॥३॥
Literal translation
Be-bhōktā-of-my-bhōga — all-anantā-śubha-aśubha. Remembering-feet-in-hrdaya — all-chintā-cleared. Achaḷa-doesn't-move — body's-movement-vaḷaṇa-by-prārabdha. Tukā: one-word-became — by-kīrtana-ārāṇuka.
What it means
A 3-verse surrender + body-driven-by-prārabdha text. Be now the experiencer of my experience-of-fruit — of all endless ones, both good and bad. Remembering your feet, I stayed with feet in my heart — then all worry was cleared. The unmoving does not move — the body's movement is just a curve by the already-set-fate. Tukā says: one single word became true — by doing kīrtana, came at-ease-state without anxiety. The 3-fold operation: (a) transfer-bhōktā-status to the Lord for-all-fruits-good-and-bad — (b) feet-in-hrdaya clears chintā — (c) achaḷa-witness + body-as-prārabdha-trajectory = non-doership. Pair with 2867 (ṭhevilē-Anantē equanimity), 2937 (deha-atīta), 2922 (karma-non-dual).
For someone today
Tukārām hands over ownership of everything that happens to him, both good and bad, asking God to be the one who truly experiences the results of his life instead of him gripping them as purely his own. He says simply keeping the Lord's feet remembered in his heart was enough to clear away all his worry. He draws a line between the deep, unmoving self that never actually shifts and the body, whose ups and downs are just following a path already set by past actions, so there's no need to take every twist and turn so personally. He ends by saying this became real for him through kīrtana, singing brought him into a genuine state of ease, free of anxiety.
मराठी: तुकाराम आपल्या आयुष्यात घडणाऱ्या प्रत्येक गोष्टीची, चांगली आणि वाईट दोन्ही, मालकी परमेश्वराकडे सोपवतात, आणि म्हणतात की त्या फळांचा खरा भोक्ता त्यानेच व्हावे, मी त्यांना माझेच म्हणून घट्ट धरून ठेवू नये. ते सांगतात की फक्त परमेश्वराचे चरण हृदयात आठवत राहणे इतकेच सर्व चिंता दूर करण्यास पुरेसे होते. ते खोल, अचल असणाऱ्या आत्म्यामध्ये आणि शरीरामध्ये फरक करतात, शरीराचे चढ-उतार हे केवळ पूर्वकर्मानुसार ठरलेल्या मार्गावरून जात असतात, त्यामुळे प्रत्येक वळण वैयक्तिकरित्या घेण्याची गरज नाही. शेवटी ते सांगतात हे कीर्तनातूनच खरे झाले, गाण्यामुळे त्यांना खऱ्या अर्थाने चिंतारहित निवांतपणा मिळाला.
Where this applies
- When something good or bad happens and you're tempted to claim it entirely as your own doing
- When your mind keeps spinning with worry and you need a way to loosen its grip
- When life's ups and downs feel overwhelming and you want to remember not everything needs to be taken personally
- When you're looking for a practice, like singing or chanting, that actually brings you real peace