Abhanga 4500
The verse
गोविंद भ्रतार गोविंद मुळहारी । नामें भेद परि एक चि तो ॥१॥
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खेळतों ते आम्हीं नव्हों नारीनर । म्हणोनि विकार नाहीं तयां ॥१५॥
तया ठावें आहे आम्ही अवघीं एक । म्हणोनि निःशंक खेळतील ॥१६॥
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एकविध सुख घेती नित्य बाळा । भ्रमर परिमळालागीं तैशा ॥२७॥
तैसा त्यांचा भाव घेतला त्यांपरी । तुका म्हणे हरि बाळलीला ॥२८॥
Literal translation
A long 28-verse extended-narrative continuing-the-gopikā-thread. Key claims: all the names of relations (bhratāra-husband, māhera-house, etc.) refer-to-one-Govinda; the worldly-play is false-show; we-are-not-women-or-men so-no-vikāra; we-know-we-are-all-one — therefore play-fearlessly; we don't-hear-the-laughter-of-the-world; Hari-sits-in-chitti; even mother-father can't-take-him-out; jāgrti-and-svapna become-one. Like-bee-after-fragrance, their-bhāva was-taken. Tukā: Hari's bāla-līlā.
What it means
A canonical extended non-dual-bhakti narrative through-the-gopikā-voice. The 28 verses develop the claim all-samsāra-relations are-the-One-Govinda, we-are-not-male-female-categories, the-world's-play is-false-show, the-bhakta-becomes-like-a-bee-following-fragrance. The longest-single-abhang-explanation of bhakti-non-duality through gopikā-experience.
For someone today
Tukārām's gopikā-narrative: all-relations-collapse-into-one-Govinda; the-bhakta is-beyond-gender-categories; bhakti is-like-a-bee-following-fragrance.
Where this applies
- Extended Krṣṇa-gopikā cluster
- 28-verse canonical all-relations-are-one-Lord text
- Bhramara-after-parimaḷa canonical-image of bhakti-following