Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
भलते जन्मीं मज घालिसील तरी । न सोडीं मी हरी नाम तुझें ॥1॥
सुख दुःख तुज देइऩन भोगितां । मग मज चिंता कासयाची ॥ध्रु.॥
तुझा दास ह्मणवीन मी अंकिला । भोगितां विठ्ठला गर्भवास ॥2॥
कासया मी तुज भाकितों करुणा । तारीं नारायणा ह्मणवुनि ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे तुज येऊं पाहे उणें । तारिसील तेणें आह्मां तया ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Whatever birth You place me in, I will never abandon Your name, O Hari. I offer You both joy and sorrow to endure; then what concern remains for me? I will call myself Your devoted servant, O Vitthal, even while enduring the womb. Why should I plead for mercy, asking You to save me simply because I call You Narayana? Says Tuka, if any lack should come upon You for saving us, then by that very act You will redeem both us and Yourself.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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