Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
चाल केलासी मोकळा । बोल विठ्ठल वेळोवेळां ॥१॥
तुज पापचि नाहीं ऐसें । नाम घेतां जवळीं वसे ॥ध्रु.॥
पंच पातकांच्या कोडी । नामें जळतां न लगे घडी ॥२॥
केलीं मागें नको राहों । तुज जमान आम्ही आहों ॥३॥
करीं तुज जीं करवती । आणिक नामें घेऊं किती ॥४॥
तुका म्हणे काळा । रीग नाहीं निघती ज्वाळा ॥५॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
You have been set free. Now walk freely, and speak Vitthal's name at every turn. You carry no sin whatsoever. When you take the Name, He comes to dwell beside you. Ten million mortal sins, crores upon crores. The Name burns them all; it does not take even a moment. What was done before, do not dwell on it. We stand surety for you. Whatever deeds you are made to do, and however many Names you are asked to take. Says Tuka: Death has no entry here. Flames issue forth and bar the way.
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The Power of the Name
The supremacy of nama-smarana: God's name as the highest practice.
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