Trust, God as home and parent
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
जाऊं देवाचिया गांवां । देव देईल विसांवा ॥1॥
देवा सांगों सुखदुःख । देव निवारील भूक ॥ध्रु.॥
घालूं देवासी च भार। देव सुखाचा सागर ॥2॥
राहों जवळी देवापाशीं । आतां जडोनि पायांसी ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे आह्मी बाळें । या देवाचीं लडिवाळें॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Let us go to God's village; God will give us rest. Let us tell God our joys and sorrows; God will satisfy our hunger. Let us place our burden upon God; God is an ocean of bliss. Let us stay close to God, clinging firmly to His feet. Says Tuka, we are children, the darlings of this God.
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In Plain Words
Let us go to God's village; God will give us rest. Let us tell God our joys and sorrows; God will take away our hunger. Let us lay our whole burden on God; God is an ocean of bliss. Let us stay close beside God now, holding fast to His feet. Tuka says: we are children, the darlings of this God.
What it means
Tukaram describes the soul going to live where God lives, the way a child goes home. Everything a person carries, joy, grief, hunger, the whole weight of the burden, is to be handed over to God, who is named an ocean of bliss. The instruction is simple: do not stand at a distance but stay close and cling to His feet. The image at the close is the heart of it: we are not strangers petitioning a king but children, and God treats us as the ones He dotes on.
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