Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
क्या गाऊं कोइऩ सुननवाला । देखें तों सब जग ही भुला ॥1॥
खेलों आपणे राम इसातें । जैसी वैसी करहों मात ॥ध्रु.॥
काहांसे ल्यावों माधर वाणी । रीझे ऐसी लोक बिराणी ॥2॥
गिरिधर लाल तो भावहि भुका । राग कला नहिं जानत तुका ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What shall I sing? There is no one to listen. I see the whole world lost in delusion. I play with my Rama on my own and let my words come as they will. Why should I take on honeyed speech to please strangers? Giridhar, the mountain-lifter, hungers only for bhava. Says Tuka, I know nothing of melody or the art of music.
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