Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
साधक जाले कळी । गुरुगुडीची लांब नळी ॥1॥
पचीं पडे मद्यपान । भांगभुकाऩ हें साधन ॥ध्रु.॥
अभेदाचें पाठांतर । अति विषयीं पडिभर ॥2॥
चेल्यांचा सुकाळ । पिंड दंड भंगपाळ ॥3॥
सेवा मानधन । बरे इच्छेनें संपन्न ॥4॥
सोंगाच्या नरकाडी । तुका बोडोनियां सोडी ॥5॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The seekers of this age have become like the long pipe of a smoking vessel. Their practice is intoxication, cannabis, and liquor. Parading the lesson of non-duality, they are enslaved to sense pleasures. They have a surplus of disciples and a regime of begging-bowl, staff, and cannabis. Their service and honor are merely wages earned for their own desires. Says Tuka, I will shave these frauds bare and drive them out.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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