Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
अतित्याइऩ बुडे गंगे । पाप लागे त्याचें त्या ॥1॥
हें तों आपुलिया गुणें । असे जेणें योजिलें ॥ध्रु.॥
अवचटें अिग्न जाळी । न सांभाळी दुःख पावे ॥2॥
जैसें तैंसें दावी आरसा । नकटएा कैसा पालटे ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Even the river Ganga is polluted by the sins of the inhospitable; the fault belongs to the wrongdoer alone. This is the consequence of one's own nature, as one has fashioned it. If fire is handled carelessly, it burns; one who fails to take care suffers pain. A mirror shows whatever is before it; how can it change the face of one whose nose is cut off? Says Tuka, each one's qualities produce their corresponding results.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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