Tukaram Gatha Abhanga 7 - Sukhe volamb davi gorha - सुखे वोळंब दावी गोहा

सुखे वोळंब दावी गोहा । माझे दुःख नेणा पाहा ॥१॥

आवडीचा मारिला वेडा । होय होय कैसा म्हणे भिडा ॥२॥

निपट मज न चले अन्न । पायली गहूं सांजा तीन ॥३॥

गेले वारीं तुम्हीं आणिली साकर । सातदी गेली साडेदहा शेर ॥४॥

अखंड मज पोटाची व्यथा । दुधभात साकर तूप पथ्या ॥५॥

दो पाहरा मज लहरी येती । शुध्द नाहीं पडे सुपती ॥६॥

नीज नये घाली फुलें । जवळीं न साहती मुलें ॥७॥

अंगी चंदन लावितें भाळीं । सदा शूळ माझे कपाळीं ॥८॥

हाड गळोनि आले मांस । माझें दुःख तुम्हां नेणवें कैसें  ॥९॥

तुका म्हणे जिता गाढव केला । मेलियावरी नरका नेला ॥१०॥

English

1. Sukhe volamb davi goha, maze dukkha nena paha

2. Awadicha marila veda, hoy hoy kaisa mhane bhida

3. Nipat maj na chale anna, payali gahu sanja teen

4. Gele wari tumhi anili sakar, saatdi geli sadedaha sher

5. Akhand maj potachi vyatha, didhbhaat sakar toop patthya

6. Do pahara maj lahari yeti, shuddha nahi pade supati

7. Neej nay ghali fule, javal na saahati muley

8. Angee chandan lavite bhalee, sada shool maze kapaalee

9. Haad galoni maas aale, maze dukkha tumha nenave kaise?

10. Tuka mahe jita gadhav kela, meliyavari naraka gela.

Translation

This abhang is about a woman who is actually enjoying a happy life, but is complaining for nothing! And in the process, she ruins her husband’s future!

1. A woman living a happy life is tells her husband (just to complain), "Oh dear, how come no one understands my sorry state?"
   
   

2. The husband, who is rather compelled to sympathize with her, says, "Yes, yes, you are right".
3. She keeps complaining, "I can't eat anything. It takes me three days to consume one payli (old Indian unit of weight equal 3.7 kilograms) of sweet made from wheat".
   
   
   
4. "Last Sunday you had bought ten and a half seers (almost equal to 10 kilograms) of sugar. It took me seven long days to consume it!"
   
   
   
5. She says, "I have a perpetual stomach disorder. So I have to stay on an austere diet of only milk/rice and sugar/ghee".

6. "I keep getting fits in the afternoon. Sometimes I fall unconscious too. So I have to sleep on bed".

7. “I have to spread flowers on my bed because I can't get proper sleep. I cannot tolerate children near me".

8. “I have a perpetual headache. I keep applying sandalwood paste on my forehead and on my whole body".
   
9. "I have lost all my flesh and have turned into a total skeleton! How come you do not understand my sorrow"?

10. Tuka says, this type of woman pretending to be unhappy, made a living donkey out of her husband. After death he went to hell (because he didn't judiciously use his time to seek God).

In this abhanga Tukoba is satirically painting a picture of a family who is just not bothered about their spiritual growth. They are living a life in which the wife is always making baseless complaints and the husband is not able to correct her behavior. As a consequence, he did not have a proper married life Even after death he went to hell because he did not use his time for spiritual development.

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