Tuesday, November 26, 2013

TUKARAM SOME NIRGUNI RACHNA 2

अभंग 

न करी रे संग राहे रे निश्चळ l लागो नेदी मळ ममतेचा ल ll १ ll 
या नाव अद्वैत ब्रह्म ज्ञान l अनुभवावाचून बडबड ते ll २ ll 
इंद्रियांचा जय वासनेचा क्षय l  संकल्पाही न ये वरी मन ll ३ ll 
तुका  म्हणे जाणीव न ये अंतरा l अंतरी या थारा आनंदाचा ll ४ ll 

NA KARI RE SANG RAHE RE NISCHAL l LAGE NEDI MAL MATECHA ll 1 1l
YA NAV ADWAIT BRAHM DYAN l ANUBHAVA VACHUN BADBAD TE ll 2 ll
INDRIYANCHA JAY VAASNECHA KSHAY l SNKALPAHI NA YE VARI MAN ll 3 ll
TUKA MHANE JANIV NA YE ANTARA l ANTARI YA THARA ANANDACHA ll 4 ll

Translation :
Do not give in to attachment .Be steady. Dont be spoiled by self affection..... 1
This is called as Non dual supreme knowledge. Talking about it without experience is futile.....2
Control over organs and desires and not resolving mind to ponder over them ..... 3
Tuka says that when this is accomplished in deep inside, it is filled with bliss ......4.

Commentary :

Line 1
Don't give in to attachment. Every individual is born with different different relations right from the birth.One goes acquiring more and more of relations with age. Not giving in to attachment is not giving up the relations and responsibilities arising out of them. Every relation has its own share of satisfaction and disappointment. To look at both with equal poise is being steady. This is hailed as SamtvaYoga in Bhagvadgeeta (2:48). Such equanimity becomes difficult due to affection towards parents, wife, children and so on. Basically these relations are extension of the self love which is impediment in the path of self query. That is why they are referred to as spoil and dirt to be avoided.

Line 2
The same theory is termed as Brahm Dyan of knowledge of the supreme. It has to experienced more than to talk about. The talk without backing of self realisation is as futile as pranks of an ignorant baby.. Sant Tukaram has come heavily on such glib speakers on many occasions else where.

Line3
Any action of individual is prompted first by resolving to do so. First thought and then action. This process is referred to as SANKALP. This process is recommended to be pushed so much far off that any breeze, wind or storm should not carry it back. The resolve to do is in turn prompted by likes and  dislikes. The likes and dislikes are supposed to be carried over from previous birth as VASANA. To do away with them is going against basic instincts. The performing organs like hands, mouth etc.need to be tamed and trained for this purpose by practicing penance.

Line 4
At the end Sant Tukaram this knowledge does not come from outside but comes from within as self realization. All turmoil is placated as result and blissful happiness fills inside.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

TUKARAM SOME NIRGUNI RACHNA

दुजें खंडे तरी l उरला तो अवघा हरि ll आपणाबाहेरी l न लगे धुंडावा ll १ ll 

इतुले जाणावया जाणा l कोडं करी मने मना ll पारधीच्या खुणा l जाणतेने ची साधाव्या  ll २ ll 

देह आधी काय खरा l देह संबध पसारा ll बुजगावणे चोरा l रक्षणसे भासते ll ३ ll 

तुका करी जागा l नको वासपू वाउगा ll आहेसी तू अंगा l अंगी उघडी डोळे ll ४ ll 

DUJE KHANDE TARI l URLA TO AVAGHA HARI ll APANA BAHERI l NA LAGE DHUNDAVA ll 1 ll
ITULE JANAVAYA JANA l KOD KARI MENE MANA ll PARDHICHYA KHUNA l JANATENECHI SADHAVYA ll 2 ll
DEH ADHI KAI KHARA l DEH SAMBADH PASARA ll BUJGAVANE CHORA l RAKSHANSE BHASTE ll 3 ll
TUKA KARI JAGA l NAKO VASAPU VAUGA ll AHESI TU ANGA l ANGI DOLE UGHADI ll 4 ll 

Translation :

Break the duality and find HARI everywhere. No need to search beyond thyself  ...1
Mind is a puzzle to be solved by the mind to know this small truth. Just as a hunter follows footprints of the prey ...2
So far the physical body and its extent was considered as real. As real as scare crow erected to defend the crop in the field .... 3
Tuka says wake up and refrain from vanity. Open your eyes to realise ultimate reality within thyself......4.

Commentary :

Line 1
The duality takes birth almost at the time of the birth of any individual. The first thing that one instinctively understands is " I , me and mine "  I am " me"  even if I forget my name. This is termed as AHAM BHAV. Instantly understood is what is not me as you and yours or He , she, it and theirs. This is termed as IDAMBHAV. Many times this is referred as the Subjective and Objective thoughts. This is duality referred by Sant Tukaram and urged to break fre from it. He further assures that fall out will be finding HARI every where. No need to search beyond thyself as an object or a person. The term HARI is not to be construed as some mythological GOD.

Line 2
Easy to say than experience. Sant Tukaram is advocating to use the Mind as instrument to solve puzzle of mind. The duality sustains on the acts of  likes and  dislikes of the mind. Only mind can break away from it.
An example is given of the hunter hunting the prey by following it's foot prints to underline self query.

Line 3
At the beginning the physical body is understood as true. Its interaction with the world is also understood as true. Only self query will show that these things are as real as scare crow raised in the field to protect the crop. It appears to be real and serves the limited role but never the person it is personifying.

Line 4
Sant Tukaram says Wake up and refrain from undue extensive actions. Open your eyes and realise the ultimate reality within thyself.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

MINUTE THAN ATOM (अणुरेणूया  थोकडा) 

अणुरेणूया  थोकडा … तुका आकाशा एवढा  ll १ ll
गिळूनी सांडले कलेवर ….  भव भ्रमाचा आकार  ll २ ll
सांडिली त्रिपुटी …  दीप उजळला घटी   ll ३ ll
तुका म्हणे आता … उरलो उपकारापुरता ll ४ ll

Word by word translation :

Minute than Atom yet equating the sky is Tuka
Swallowed and vomited illusion of form as a corpse
Quit three layer ( Experience ) , lit the lamp within
Tuka says now ( I ) remain only for benevolence.

Commentary :

Line one
Saint Tukaram is equating the subtlest and the greatest. One explores subtle, subtler and subtlest within parameters of one's own and known scale. At one point of exploration the subtlest remains only as possibility. So is the case with reaching great, greater and greatest. There also at one point it remains only as possibility. The point at both directions, where imagination ends one feels same degree of reality  and consciousness. Tukaram declares that He is at that degree of reality  and consciousness.

Line two
That point  has no place for the existance of the individual or the world. The Vedic philosophy denounces the world as the field for individual out of various forms and names which exist only as illusion  The physical body of any individual is also transitory and illusion. It's swallowing indicates the birth and vomiting indicates the death. What remains is a corpse.

Line three
The relation and inter-action between an individual and the world needs experience which is three layered. It needs the one who experiences, the object that is to be experienced and the medium for experience like sound for listening to song or sight for seeing the picture. Those three layer arise out of ignorance and that ignorance vanishes when a light of knowledge is lit within.

Line four
Having got this extreme experiences Sant Tukaram declares the purpose of his residual life as benevolence only.