Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
प्रजन्यें पडावें आपुल्या स्वभावें । आपुलाल्या दैवें पिके भूमि ॥1॥
बीज तें चि फळ येइऩल शेवटीं । लाभहानितुटी ज्याची तया ॥ध्रु.॥
दीपाचिये अंगीं नाहीं दुजाभाव । धणी चोर साव सारिखे चि ॥2॥
काउळें ढोंपरा ककर तिित्तरा । राजहंसा चारा मुHाफळें ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे येथें आवडी कारण । पिकला नारायण जयां तैसा ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Rain falls according to its own nature; the land yields its crop according to its own destiny. Whatever seed is sown, that fruit will come at the end; profit and loss belong to each alone. A lamp has no partiality within it; honest person and thief receive its light alike. Crows feed on scraps, partridges on gravel, but the royal swan feeds on pearls. Says Tuka, here, love is the only cause; as one's love is, so Narayana ripens for each.
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