Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
वांयांविण वाढविला हा लौकिक । आणिला लटिक वाद दोघां ॥1॥
नाहीं ऐसा जाला देव माझ्या मतें । भुकेलें जेवितें काय जाणे ॥ध्रु.॥
शब्दज्ञानें गौरविली हे वैखरी । साच तें अंतरीं बिंबे चि ना ॥2॥
जालों परदेशी गेले दोन्ही ठाय । संसार ना पाय तुझे देवा ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे मागें कळों येतें ऐसें । न घेतों हें पिसें लावूनियां ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
I built up this worldly reputation for nothing and brought a false quarrel upon us both. God has not become real to me in the way I expected. What does the hungry one truly know while eating? Through verbal cleverness I adorned my vaikhari, but the truth does not reflect itself within. I have become a stranger in both places: the world and Your feet, O God, are both lost to me. Says Tuka, had I known this beforehand, I would never have taken on this madness.
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