Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
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मराठी मूळ
जन्मा येउनि काय केलें । तुवां मुदल गमाविलें॥1॥
कां रे न फिरसी माघारा । अझुनि तरी फजितखोरा ॥ध्रु.॥
केली गांठोळीची नासी । पुढें भीके चि मागसी ॥2॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Having been born as a human, what have you accomplished? You have squandered your very capital. Why do you not turn back even now, O shameless one? You have destroyed what was tied in your bundle, and now you shall beg from door to door.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
उपदेश
Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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