Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
माहेरिंचा काय येइऩल निरोप । ह्मणऊनि झोंप नाहीं डोळां ॥1॥
वाट पाहें आस धरूनियां जीवीं । निडळा हे ठेवीं वरी बाहे ॥ध्रु.॥
बोटवरी माप लेखितों दिवस । होतों कासावीस धीर नाहीं ॥2॥
काय नेणों संतां पडेल विसर । कीं नव्हे सादर मायबाप॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे तेथें होइऩल दाटणी । कोण माझें आणी मना तेथें ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What news will come from my true home? With this thought, sleep does not visit my eyes. I watch the road with hope held within me, hand on my brow, gazing into the distance. I count the days on my fingers, restless and without patience. Perhaps the saints have forgotten, or perhaps the Lord is not inclined. Says Tuka, there must be a great crowd around Him; who will bring me to His mind?.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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