Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
कापो कोणी माझी मान सुखें पीडोत दुर्जन । तुज होय सीण तें मी न करीं सर्वथा ॥1॥
चुकी जाली एकवेळा मज पासूनि चांडाळा । उभें करोनियां जळा माजी वहएा राखिल्या॥ध्रु.॥
नाहीं केला हा विचार माझा कोण अधिकार । समर्थासी भार न कळे कैसा घालावा ॥2॥
गेलें होऊनियां मागें नये बोलों तें वाउगें । पुढिलिया प्रसंगें तुका ह्मणे जाणावें ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Let anyone cut my throat; let the wicked torment me freely. But I will never do what causes You pain, not under any circumstance. This mistake happened once at my pitiable hands. You made me stand in the water and kept the notebooks safe. I did not consider whose authority I was overriding or how to place this burden on the Capable One. What is done is done; it is useless to speak of it now. Says Tuka, let the future be guided by this lesson.
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