Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
ऐसे संत जाले कळीं । तोंडीं तमाखूची नळी ॥1॥
स्नानसंध्या बुडविली । पुढें भांग वोडवली ॥ध्रु.॥
भांगभुकाऩ हें साधन। पची पडे मद्यपान ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे अवघें सोंग । तेथें कैचा पांडुरंग ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Such are the saints produced by this age of Kali: a tobacco pipe hangs from their lips. They have drowned their daily prayers and ablutions and have taken up hemp instead. Hemp-eating and intoxicants are their spiritual practice, leading them inevitably to drink liquor. Says Tuka, it is all a masquerade; how could Panduranga be found there?.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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