Uta jaage vahaa re aataa | Smaran karaa Pandareenaatha

 

Ramkrishnahari.

Our daily life is like a ‘bracket’.  There is a “(“ which denotes the opening of our day which is waking up.  There is also a “)” which denotes the closing of our day which is going to sleep.  What happens in between the “( “ &  “ )” is what we call as ‘life’.  Let’s look at this a little deeper.

-        “)” will not be relevant if there is no “(“.  In other words, if we do not wake up, there is no sleep. 

-        Waking up brings with it awareness of everything around us.  Sleep is a dissolution of everything around us.

-        Waking up therefore brings consciousness along with it.

-        In the material plane, waking is always associated with light.  Sleep is associated with darkness.

-        Coming to the spiritual plane, waking corresponds to the awakening of the self, connoted as ‘jnaana’.  Anyone whose self is not awakened is in sleep which is connoted as ‘ajnaana’.

-        In the material plane, while both waking and sleeping are direly needed, alternating each other, in the science of the self, it is very much a possibility that we are awakened, never ever to enter into the sleeping state again.  In fact this is what is desired out of a human life.

-        A person who is asleep mostly needs someone else or something else like an alarm, to wake him / her up.  There are very few who can wake up on their own.  In the spiritual world too there is someone who is needed to wake us up.  That person is the bonafide ‘sadguru’.

This abhang by Sant Namdev Maharaj, while is sung as a part of the ‘Kakada Haarati’ to wake up the lord, in perspective and essence is all about waking us up.  It is indeed a very great ‘padhdhati’ (system) of inducting us with spiritual knowledge which all the spiritual greats of this land have carved out.  This knowledge is injected into us even without us realising it.  ‘Sant Namdev’ says :

उठा जागें वहा रे आतां        - Get up now ! wake up my dear !

स्मरण करा पंढरीनाथा        - Contemplate on ‘Sri Pandharinath’.

भावें चरणीं ठेवा माथा         - With all love, place your forehead on his feet.

चुकवा व्यथा जन्माच्या        - Give a slip & escape from the travails having to

                                           take birth again.

It would be unfair if we do not look the rest of this abhang.

धन दारा पुत्र जन                - Wealth, wife, children

बंधु सोयरे पिशून                - Brethren, relatives, benefactors, back biters

सर्व मिथ्या हे जाणून            - All are mere illusion

शरण रिघा देवासी              - Surrender yourself to the lord

माया विघ्नें भ्रमला खरें          - By the sway of ‘maaya’, troubles are projected as

  true.

म्हणतां मी माझेनि घरें         - We say ‘me’, ‘my own house’ etc.

हें तों संपत्तीचें वारें              - This is only breezing wealth

साचोकारें जाईल                 - Establishing themselves as truth.

आयुष्य जात पाहे पाहा        - Just See ! Your life is just speeding past you ! 

काळ जपतसे महा              - ‘Time’ is gobbling up everything monstrously !

स्वहिताचा घोर वहा           - Get anxious to do something for your own welfare

ध्यानीं रहा श्रीहरिच्या           - Remain in the contemplation of ‘Sri Hari’s’ feet

संतचरणीं भाव धरा             - Hold steadfast devotion unto the feet of saints.

क्षणक्षणा नाम स्मरा            - Contemplate on the name (of the lord) every

                                        ticking second.

मुक्ति सायुज्यता वरा           - Desire an alliance with ‘mukti’ and ‘saayujya’

                                          (liberation).

हेंचि करा बापांनो               - Do only this my dear ones !

विष्णुदास विनवी नामा        - ‘Naama’, the servant of ‘Sri Vishnu’ beseeches all

   of you

भुलू नका भवकामा            - While you should conduct these worldly duties of

                                           yours, ensure that you do not get trapped in it too

धरां अंतरीं निजप्रेमा           - Hold the real love in your hearts.

न चुका नेमा हरिभक्ती        - Do not ever miss out on devotion to ‘Sri Hari’.

Ramkrishnahari.

उठा जागें वहा रे आतां                  l         स्मरण करा पंढरीनाथा        l

भावें चरणीं ठेवा माथा                   l         चुकवा व्यथा जन्माच्या         l१l

धन दारा पुत्र जन                          l         बंधु सोयरे पिशून                l

सर्व मिथ्या हे जाणून                      l         शरण रिघा देवासी              llधृll

माया विघ्नें भ्रमला खरें                    l         म्हणतां मी माझेनि घरें         l

हें तों संपत्तीचें वारें                        l         साचोकारें जाईल                ll२ll

आयुष्य जात पाहे पाहा                  l         काळ जपतसे महा              l

स्वहिताचा घोर वहा                      l         ध्यानीं रहा श्रीहरिच्या           ll४ll

संतचरणीं भाव धरा                       l         क्षणक्षणा नाम स्मरा            l

मुक्ति सायुज्यता वरा                     l         हेंचि करा बापांनो               ll ५ll

विष्णुदास विनवी नामा                  l         भुलू नका भवकामा            l

धरां अंतरीं निजप्रेमा                      l         न चुका नेमा हरिभक्ती        ll ६ll

Curator: Sri Pundalik Maharaj Dehukar, a descendant of Sant Tukaram

Bhaavaartham: Mumbai Sri Srinivasa Bhagavatar 

Editor: Smt Poornima Srikanth, Tripunithura, Smt. Vishaka Srinivasan, Mumbai

Tamil translation: Smt Vasantha Srinivasan, Bengaluru 

Co-ordinator: V R Radhakrishnan, Chennai