Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
बहुत सोसिले मागें न कळतां । पुढती काय आतां अंध व्हावें ॥1॥
एकाचिये अंगीं हें ठेवावें लावून । नये भिन्न भिन्ना चांचपडो ॥ध्रु.॥
कोण होइऩल तो ब्रह्मांडचाळक । आपणें चि हाके देइऩल हाके ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे दिलीं चेतवूनि सुणीं । कौतुकावांचूनि नाहीं छळ ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
I have suffered much in the past through ignorance. Now, going forward, should I remain blind? Fix your attention on the One alone; do not grope about among many different things. The one who moves the entire cosmos will Himself respond when called. Says Tuka, He has roused the hounds and set them running. Without the sport of it, there is no tormenting.
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Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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