Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
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मराठी मूळ
अधमाची यारी । रंग पतंगाचे परी ॥१॥
विटे न लगतां क्षण । मोल जाय वांयां विण ॥ध्रु.॥
सर्पाचिया परी । विषें भरला कल्हारीं ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे देवा । मज झणी ऐसे दावा ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Friendship with the base is like the color of a lac dye: it fades before the moment is over, and its value goes to waste for nothing. Like a serpent, such a person is full of venom even amid a bed of lotuses. Says Tuka, O God, never let me encounter such people.
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