Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
घरीं रांडा पोरें मरती उपवासीं । सांगे लोकांपासीं थोरपण ॥१॥
नेऊनियां घरा दाखवावें काय । काळतोंडा जाय चुकावूनि ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे आम्ही जाणों त्या प्रमाण । ठकावे हे जन तैसे नहों ॥३॥
जोहार - अभंग ३
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
His wife and children starve at home, yet he boasts of his greatness before the public. If someone were taken to his house, what would they see? The shame-faced one would slip away to avoid them. Says Tuka, we know the true measure of such a one. We are not the sort who can be deceived.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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