Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
तुजशीं संबंध चि खोटा । परता परता रे थोंटा ॥1॥
देवा तुझें काय घ्यावें । आप आपणां ठकावें ॥ध्रु.॥
जेथें मुदल न ये हातां । व्याज मरावें लेखितां ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे ऐसा । त्रिभुवनीं तुझा ठसा ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
This relationship with You is simply false. Keep retreating, again and again, O Incomplete One. What is there to receive from You, O God? One only ends up deceiving oneself. Where the principal itself cannot come to hand, one only exhausts oneself calculating the interest. Says Tuka, such is Your imprint across all three worlds.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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