Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
केते मालुम नहिं पडे । नन्हे बडे गये सो ॥1॥
बाप भाइऩ लेखा नहिं । पाछें तूं हि चलनार ॥2॥
काले बाल सिपत भये । खबर पकडो तुका कहे ॥3॥
क्या मेरे राम कवन सुख सारा । कहकर दे पुछूं दास तुह्मारा ॥ध्रु.॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
How many have gone of whom nothing is now known, both the small and the great? There is no count of fathers and brothers who went before. You too shall follow after them. Black hair has turned white. Seize this awareness, says Tuka. O my Rama, what is the highest happiness? Tell me. I ask as Your servant.
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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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