Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
विष्ठा भक्षी तया अमृत पारिखें । वोंगळ चि सखें वोंगळाचें ॥1॥
नये पाहों कांहीं गोहवाडीचा अंत । झणी ठाका संत दुर्जनापें ॥ध्रु.॥
भेंसळीच्या बीजा अमंगळ गुण । उपजवी सीण दरुषणें ॥2॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
One who eats filth finds nectar foreign to his taste; the vulgar are only friends with the vulgar. Do not go looking into the affairs of the gutter folk; saints, be cautious and stay far from the wicked. The seed of bad company produces impure qualities and breeds suffering at the very sight.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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