Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
जपाचें निमित्त झोपेचा पसरु । देहाचा विसरू पाडूनियां॥1॥
ऐसीं तीं भजनें अमंगळवाणी । सोंगसंपादणी बहुरूप्याची ॥ध्रु.॥
सेवेविशीं केलें लोभाचिये आसे । तया कोठें असे उरला देव ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे मानदंभ जया चित्तीं । तयाची फजीती करूं आह्मी ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Under the pretense of chanting, he sprawls out in sleep, forgetting the body entirely. Such devotions are impure, mere costume changes of a traveling performer. Service done out of greed has no God remaining in it. Says Tuka, those whose chittas are filled with vanity and pretense, I shall expose them.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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