Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
आह्मीं गावें तुह्मीं कोणीं कांहीं न ह्मणावें । ऐसें तंव आह्मां सांगितलें नाहीं देवें ॥1॥
ह्मणा रामराम टाळी वाजवा हातें। नाचा डोला प्रेमें आपुलिया स्वहितें ॥ध्रु.॥
सहज घडे तया आळस करणें तें काइऩ । अग्नीचें भातुकें हात पािळतां कां पायीं ॥2॥
येथें नाहीं लाज भिHभाव लौकिक । हांसे तया घडे ब्रह्महत्यापातक ॥3॥
जया जैसा भाव निरोपण करावा । येथें नाहीं चाड ताळविताळ या देवा ॥4॥
सदैव ज्यां कथा काळ घडे श्रवण । तुका ह्मणे येर जन्मा आले पाषाण ॥5॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
We shall sing, and let none object. God has not told us to hold back. Chant Rama, Rama, clap your hands. Dance and sway with love, for your own highest good. When something arises so naturally, why be lazy about it? A child plays at cooking with fire; why pull back the hand? Here there is no shame, no outward show of devotion, no worldly decorum. Whoever laughs at this incurs the sin of brahmahatya. Express your bhava however you feel it. This God has no interest in keeping beat or keeping count. Says Tuka, blessed are those for whom hearing the sacred stories fills their days. All others have been born into this life as stones.
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