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गाथा 1590The Necessity of Experience

Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram

मराठी मूळ

येथीलिया अनुभवें । कळों जीवें हें येतसे ॥1॥

दोहीं ठायीं एक जीव । माझी कींव त्या अंगीं ॥ध्रु.॥

भूक भुके चि खाउनि धाय । नाहीं हाय अन्नाची ॥2॥

तुका ह्मणे सुख जालें । अंतर धालें त्यागुणें ॥3॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation

From the experience of this world, the jiva comes to understand. In both places there is one life; the tenderness I feel is the same tenderness felt on that side. Hunger eats itself and finds satisfaction; there is no despair over food. Says Tuka, joy has come, and the within is fully content because of that union.

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The Necessity of Experience

Why direct experience of God, not mere learning, is the only path.

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