Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
भजन घाली भोगावरी । अकर्तव्य मनीं धरी ॥१॥
धिग त्याचें साधुपण । विटाळूनी वर्ते मन ॥ध्रु.॥
नाहीं वैराग्याचा लेश । अर्थचाड जावें आस ॥२॥
हें ना तें सें जालें । तुका म्हणे वांयां गेलें ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
One who uses devotion merely for worldly enjoyment, harboring improper desires in the mind: shame on such saintliness. The mind moves steeped in impurity, without even a trace of dispassion, driven only by greed for wealth. Says Tuka, being neither this nor that, it has all gone to waste.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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