Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
भHीचिया पोटीं बोध कांकडा ज्योती । पंचप्राण जीवें भावें ओंवाळूं आरती ॥1॥
ओंवाळू आरती माझ्या पंढरीनाथा। दोन्ही कर जोडोनि चरणीं ठेवीन माथा ॥ध्रु.॥
काय महिमा वणूप आतां सांगणें तें किती । कोटि ब्रह्महत्या मुख पाहतां जाती ॥2॥
राही रखुमाइऩ दोही दों बाही । मयूर पिच्छचामरें ढािळति ठायीं ठायीं ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे दीप घेऊनि उन्मनति शोभा । विटेवरी उभा दिसे लावण्यगाभा ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
In the womb of devotion, wisdom is the dawn-lamp; with the five vital breaths and wholehearted love, I wave this arati. I wave the arati before my Lord of Pandhari, joining both hands and placing my head at his feet. What glory shall I describe, and how much can I tell? A million sins of the worst kind vanish at the sight of his face. Rakhumai and Rukmini stand on either side, fanning him with peacock-feather whisks everywhere. Says Tuka, taking up the lamp, the mind soars beyond itself in radiance. There he stands upon the brick, a treasury of beauty.
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Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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