Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
पुसावें तें ठाइऩ आपुल्या आपण । अहंकारा शून्य घालूनियां ॥1॥
येर वाग्जाळ मायेचा अहंकार । वचनाशीं थार अYाान तें ॥ध्रु.॥
फळ तें चि बीज बीज तें ची फळ । उपनांवें मूळ न पालटे ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे अवघे गव्हांचे प्रकार । सोनें अलंकार मिथ्या नांव ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Ask yourself, within yourself, having emptied the ego. All other verbal webs are the ego of Maya. Such wordiness is a shelter for ignorance. The fruit is the seed, and the seed is the fruit; at the root, the names change nothing. Says Tuka, all are forms of wheat. Gold and its ornaments bear different names, but the substance is one.
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