Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
नाहीं भ्यालों तरी पावलों या ठाया । तुह्मां आळवाया जविळकें ॥1॥
सत्ताबळें आतां मागेन भोजन । केलें तें चिंतन आजिवरी ॥ध्रु.॥
नवनीतासाटीं खादला हा जीव । थोडएासाटीं कीव कोण करी ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे ताक न लगे हें घाटे । पांडुरंगा खोटें चाळवण ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
It is not out of fear that I have come to this place, but out of the closeness of calling upon You. Now by right I will demand my meal, for I have done my devotion until this day. You swallowed blows for the sake of butter; who shows mercy for small matters? Says Tuka, I do not need even buttermilk at a loss, O Panduranga; do not put me off with evasions.
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Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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