Nondual reassurance, you are deathless
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
अमर आहां अमर आहां । खरें कीं पाहा खोटें हें ॥1॥
न ह्मणां देह माझा ऐसा । मग भरवसा कळेल ॥ध्रु.॥
कैंचा धाक कैंचा धाक । सकिळक हें आपुलें ॥2॥
देव चि बरे देव चि बरे । तुका ह्मणे खरे तुह्मी ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
You are immortal, you are immortal. See whether this is true or false. Simply stop saying 'this body is mine,' and then certainty will dawn. What fear is there? Everything belongs to you. Says Tuka, God alone is good, God alone is good. You are the real ones.
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In Plain Words
You are immortal, you are immortal. Look and see whether this is true or false. Just stop saying "this body is mine," and then the certainty will dawn in you. What is there to fear? What is there to fear? All of it is your own. God alone is good, God alone is good. Tuka says: you are the real one.
What it means
Tukaram is speaking straight to the listener, telling them their true nature is deathless. He does not ask for belief; he asks them to test the claim for themselves. The one thing that blocks the certainty is the habit of calling the body "mine," so he says simply drop that, and the knowing arises. Once you no longer take yourself to be the body, fear has nothing to stand on, because everything already belongs to you. Tuka closes by saying God alone is real, and that this same reality is what you yourself are.
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