Abhanga 4574
Weaving remembrance of God into ordinary daily life, rather than setting it apart, is what steadily shapes ordinary people into reflections of what they worship.
The verse
गाती ओंव्या कामें करितां सकळें । हालवितां बाळें देवावरि ॥१॥
ॠद्धिसिद्धी दासी दारीं ओळंगती । सकळ संपत्ति सर्वां घरीं ॥२॥
घरीं बैसलिया जोडलें निधान । करिती कीर्तन नरनारी ॥३॥
नारीनर लोक धन्य त्यांची याति । जयांसि संगति गोविंदाची ॥४॥
गोविंदें गोविंद केले लोकपाळ । चिंतनें सकळ तुका म्हणे ॥५॥
Literal translation
Sing-ovis-while-working — rock-bāḷas-on-Deva. Rddhi-siddhi-dāsīs — sampatti-all-houses. Niḍhāna-joined-at-home — nara-nārī-kīrtana. Blessed-their-yāti — Govinda-sangati. Govinda-made-lōka-pāḷas-Govinda — by-chintana-all — Tukā.
What it means
A 5-verse yamak-bandha — Dvārakā-life as ideal-Vārkarī-utopia: women-sing-ovis-while-working-and-rocking-children-on-songs-of-Deva; rddhi-and-siddhi-themselves-serve-as-maidservants; treasure-in-every-home; men-and-women-do-kīrtana. The closing-radical-non-dual: Govinda-made-the-lōka-pāḷas-themselves-into-Govinda by-chintana (continuous-meditation) — bhakta-becomes-the-Lord-they-worship. Pair with 4573 (preceding construction), 4553 (Gokul-folk = Govinda).
For someone today
In Dvaraka, the women sing devotional songs while doing their everyday work, even while rocking children to sleep, so remembrance of God is woven right into ordinary life instead of set apart from it. Prosperity itself becomes like a willing servant at their door, and every home has all it needs without anyone having to search for it. Men and women alike gather to sing in praise together, and Tukaram closes with the deepest claim: through steady, continuous remembrance, ordinary people themselves come to embody the very God they worship.
मराठी: द्वारकेत स्त्रिया रोजचे काम करता करता भक्तिगीते गातात, अगदी मुलांना झोपवतानाही, त्यामुळे देवाचे स्मरण आयुष्यापासून वेगळे न राहता रोजच्या जगण्यातच विणले जाते. समृद्धीच स्वतः त्यांच्या दारात सेवेसाठी उभी राहते, आणि प्रत्येक घरात हवे ते सगळे असते, कोणाला ते शोधावेही लागत नाही. स्त्री-पुरुष सर्वजण एकत्र येऊन प्रेमाने गाणी गातात, आणि तुकाराम शेवटी सर्वात खोल विधान करतात: सतत, अखंड स्मरणाने, साधी माणसेच शेवटी ज्या देवाची ते पूजा करतात तोच बनतात.
Where this applies
- When you want to weave devotion or gratitude into ordinary chores instead of treating it as a separate task
- When you notice a contented household where everyone's needs seem naturally met
- When singing or working together with others becomes its own form of shared joy
- When steady, everyday remembrance gradually starts to shape who you become