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.
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.
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