Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
दुधभात घृत सकरपारे । हरते भुक नहि अंततारे ॥1॥
खावते जुग सब चलिजावे । खटमिठा फिर पचतावे ॥2॥
कहे तुका रामरस जो पावे । बहुरि फेरा वो कबहु न खावे ॥3॥
बारंबार काहे मरत अभागी । बहुरि मरन संक्या तोरेभागी ॥ध्रु.॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Why do you keep dying again and again, O unfortunate one? The count of your deaths is your own portion. Milk, rice, ghee, and shakarpara remove hunger for a time, but they do not carry you across in the end. Eat and enjoy through all the ages, yet time passes away. The sour-and-sweet of it all turns in the end to regret. Says Tuka, the one who attains the rasa of Rama never again enters the rounds of samsara.
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