Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
पतिव्रते आनंद मनीं । सिंदळ खोंचे व्यभिचारवचनीं ॥1॥
जळो वर्म लागो आगी । शुद्धपण भलें जगीं ॥ध्रु.॥
सुख पुराणीं आचारशीळा । दुःख वाटे अनर्गळा ॥2॥
शूरा उल्हास अंगीं । गांढएा मरण ते प्रसंगीं ॥3॥
शुद्ध सोनें उजळे अगी । हीन काळें धांवे रंगीं ॥4॥
तुका ह्मणे तो चि हिरा । घनघायें निवडे पुरा ॥5॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
A faithful wife finds joy in her own mind; a faithless woman flinches at a word about devotion. Let falsehood burn and catch fire; purity alone is blessed in this world. The righteous find delight in scripture and moral conduct; the dissolute find such talk a torment. The warrior thrills at the prospect of battle; the coward sees death in the same occasion. Pure gold shines brighter in the fire; base metal only darkens and runs in the heat. Says Tuka, only the true diamond emerges whole from the heaviest blows.
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The Moral Ideal
Purity, sincerity, truthfulness, humility, peacefulness, and service.
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