Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
नये पाहों मुख मात्रागमन्याचें । तैसें अभHाचें गुरुपुत्रा ॥1॥
ह्मणऊनि बरें धरितां एकांत । तेणें नव्हे घात भजनासी ॥ध्रु.॥
नये होऊं कदा निंदकाची भेटी । जया द्वैत पोटीं चांडाळाच्या ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे नका बोलों त्यासी गोष्टी । जयाचिये दृष्टी पाप वाढे ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
One should not look upon the face of an adulterous person, nor, for a guru's son, upon that of a non-devotee. Therefore it is good to keep to solitude, for this does no harm to one's devotion. One should never meet a slanderer who carries duality in the belly of one truly fallen. Says Tuka, do not even speak with one in whose gaze sin multiplies.
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