Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
अवघें ब्रम्हरूप रिता नाहीं ठाव । प्रतिमा तो देव कैसा नव्हे ॥१॥
नाहीं भाव तया सांगावें तें किती । आपुल्याला मतीं पाषांडिया ॥ध्रु.॥
जया भावें संत बोलिले वचन । नाहीं अनुमोदन शाब्दिकांसि ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे संतीं भाव केला बळी । न कळतां खळीं दूषिला देव ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Everything is the form of Brahman; there is no empty place. How then can an image not be God? Those without faith cannot be told enough; the heretic clings to his own opinion. The words the saints have spoken with true feeling find no acceptance among mere word-jugglers. Says Tuka, the saints made devotion itself the sacrificial offering, but the wicked, not understanding, found fault with God.
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