Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
क्या कहुं नहीं बुझत लोका । लिजावे जम मारत धका ॥1॥
क्या जीवनेकी पकडी आस । हातों लिया नहिं तेरा घांस ॥ध्रु.॥
किसे दिवाने कहता मेरा । कछु जावे तन तूं सब ल्या न्यारा ॥2॥
कहे तुका तूं भया दिवाना । आपना विचार कर ले जाना ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What can I say? These people will not understand. Death comes and carries them off with a shove. Why do you cling to life? Death will not leave even a blade of grass in your hands. Who is the madman who keeps calling things "mine"? When the body departs, everything you claimed is left behind. Says Tuka, you have become a madman. Think it over before you go.
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Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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