Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
देव आड जाला । तो भोगिता मी उगला । अवघा निवारला । शीण शुभाअशुभाचा ॥१॥
जीवशिवाचें भातुकें । केलें क्रीडाया कौतुकें । कैचीं येथें लोकें । हा आभास अनित्य ॥ध्रु.॥
विष्णुमय खरें जग । येथें लागतसे लाग । वांटिले विभाग । वर्णधर्म हा खेळ तयाचा ॥२॥
अवघी एकाची च वीण । तेथें कैचें भिन्नाभिन्न । वेदपुरुष नारायण । तेणें केला निवाडा ॥३॥
प्रसादाचा रस । तुका लाधला सौरस । पायापाशीं वास । निकट नव्हे निराळा ॥४॥
मंबाजी गोसावी यांनीं स्वामीस पीडा केली - अभंग ॥५॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
God has interposed Himself as the doer; He is the experiencer, and I have gone silent. All the toil of good and evil has been removed. The play of jiva and Shiva has been made into a child's toy, a plaything of wonder. Says Tuka, what bondage, what liberation? It was all His game from the start.
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Surrender and Acceptance
The conditions of spiritual receptivity and the letting go of the separate self.
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