Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
धीर तो कारण साहे होतो नारायण । नेदी होऊं सीण वाहों चिंता दासांसी ॥1॥
सुखें करावें कीर्तन हषॉ गावे हरिचे गुण। वारी सुदर्शन आपण चि किळकाळ ॥ध्रु.॥
जीव वेची माता बाळा जडभारी होतां । तो तों नव्हे दाता प्राकृतां यां सारिखा ॥2॥
हें तों माझ्या अनुभवें अनुभवा आलें जीवें । तुका ह्मणे सत्य व्हावें आहाच नये कारणा ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The one who endures with patience becomes Narayana Himself. He does not let His servants suffer or carry worry. Sing kirtan joyfully; sing the glories of Hari with delight. Sudarshana, His discus, drives away the shrieking death-force. A mother stakes her very life for her child when the danger is mortal. Yet He is no ordinary mortal, bound by such limits. Says Tuka, this has come to me through direct experience, lived in this very life. One need not seek proof elsewhere; there is no call for that at all.
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