Surrender, stripped bare before the world
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
मनाचिये साक्षी जाली सांगों मात । सकळ वृत्तांत आपला तो ॥1॥
तुह्मां परामृश घेणें सत्ताबळें । धरितां निराळें कैसीं वांचों ॥ध्रु.॥
मी माझें सांडून यावया पसारा । आणीक दातारा काय काज ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे आह्मी तुजविण एका । निढळें लौकिका माजी असों ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
With the mind as my witness, let me tell the whole story, the complete account of my condition. You have the authority to examine it all; if You hold Yourself apart, how shall I survive? Having abandoned 'I' and 'mine' and all this expanse of illusion, what else remains, O generous Lord? Says Tuka, without You alone, I stand exposed and bare before the world.
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In Plain Words
With my mind as witness, let me tell the whole story, the full account of my state. You have the power to examine it all; if you hold yourself apart, how shall I survive? Having dropped I and mine and all this spread of illusion, what else is there to do, generous Lord? Tuka says: without you alone, I stand exposed and bare before the world.
What it means
Tukaram makes a full confession with his own mind as the only witness, holding nothing back. He acknowledges God has every right to scrutinize him, and warns that if God stays aloof he cannot survive the examination. He has already let go of I and mine and the whole expanse of illusion, so there is nothing further he can renounce on his own. That is exactly why he is helpless: with everything dropped, he stands naked before the world, and only God's presence can clothe and shelter him now.
Surrender and Acceptance
The conditions of spiritual receptivity and the letting go of the separate self.
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