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Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram

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देव बराडी देव बराडी । घाली देंठासाटीं उडी ॥1॥

देव भ्याड देव भ्याड । राखे बळीचें कवाड ॥ध्रु.॥

देव भाविक भाविक । होय दासाचें सेवक ॥2॥

देव होया देव होया । जैसा ह्मणे तैसा तया ॥3॥

देव लाहान लाहान । तुका ह्मणे अनुरेण॥4॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation

God is greedy; He leaps for even a scrap. God is timid; He guards the doorway of Bali. God is devoted; He becomes the servant of His own servant. God becomes whatever His devotee desires Him to be. Says Tuka, God is small, smaller than the smallest atom.

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