Social criticism, wealth that serves nothing
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
तुका ह्मणे छी थूं जया घरीं धन । तेथें तें कारण कासयाचें ॥3॥ ॥1॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Says Tuka, shame on the house where such wealth resides; what purpose can anything serve there?
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
In Plain Words
Tuka says: shame on the house where such wealth lives. What purpose can anything serve there?
What it means
This is Tukaram's closing line to the criticism that came before it. He calls down shame on a household whose riches sit beside corruption, because wealth in such hands serves no good end. The point is not that money is evil but that everything turns useless when the people holding it are rotten. He measures a house not by what it owns but by what its owning is good for.
Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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