Surrender, the cut bond
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
जाली तडातोडी । अवघीं पडिलों उघडीं ॥1॥
नव्हों कोणांची च कांहीं । तुझे भरलिया वाहीं ॥ध्रु.॥
पारुशला संवसार। मोडली बैसण्याची थार ॥2॥
आतां ह्मणे तुका । देवा अंतरें राखों नका ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The cutting has happened. I have fallen exposed before all. I belong to no one now; I am carried in Your current. This worldly life has withered away; my seat within it is broken. Says Tuka, O God, do not keep me at a distance now.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
In Plain Words
The cutting has happened. I have fallen open before everyone. I belong to no one now. I am carried in Your current. This worldly life has withered. My seat in it is broken. Tuka says: God, do not keep me at a distance now.
What it means
Tukaram speaks from the moment the old ties have already snapped. Whatever held him to ordinary life has been cut, and he stands exposed, claimed by no person and no station. He does not grieve this; he reads it as God carrying him away in a current he cannot resist. His one fear is that, having been emptied of every other belonging, he might still be left without God, so he asks only not to be kept at a distance.
Surrender and Acceptance
The conditions of spiritual receptivity and the letting go of the separate self.
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