Nondual experience, water in the sky
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
नभोमय जालें जळ । एकीं सकळ हरपलें ॥1॥
आतां काय सारासारी । त्याच्या लहरी तयांत ॥ध्रु.॥
कैचा तेथ यावा सांडी । आप कोंडी आपण्यां ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे कल्प जाला। अस्त गेला उदय ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Water has become one with the sky; everything has merged into a single unity. What need is there now for any sorting? Its waves belong to it alone. How can any separation arise? The self contains the self. Says Tuka, a cosmic cycle has turned; the setting has become the rising.
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In Plain Words
The water has become sky; in the one, everything has vanished. What sorting is left to do? The waves belong only to that. Where can any separation come from here? The self is enclosed within itself. Tuka says: a whole cosmic age has turned; the setting has become the rising.
What it means
Tukaram describes a state where the line between the seer and the seen has dissolved, like water rising into sky until you cannot tell one from the other. Once all has merged into the one, there is nothing left to sift into real and unreal; the waves are not other than the sea they rise in. Separation cannot even begin, because the self is sealed within itself with no outside to escape to. He calls it a cosmic turning, where setting and rising are no longer opposites: the end and the beginning have become a single thing.
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