Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
शोकवावा म्यां देहे । ऐसें नेणों पोटीं आहे ॥1॥
तरी च नेदा जी उत्तर । दुःखी राखिलें अंतर ॥ध्रु.॥
जावें वनांतरा। येणें उद्देशें दातारा ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे गिरी । मज सेववावी दरी ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Is it Your wish that I should grieve in this body? I do not know what You hold within. That is why You give me no reply, and You have kept my chitta in distress. Should I then go to the wilderness, O Benefactor, with this intent? Says Tuka, must I make my home in the gorge of a mountain?.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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