Confession, settle it now
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
आतां मी पतित ऐसा साच भावें । कळों अनुभवें आलें देवा ॥1॥
काय करावें तें रोकडें चि करीं । राहिली हे उरी नाहीं दोघां ॥ध्रु.॥
येर येरा समदृष्टी द्यावें या उत्तरा । यासी काय करा गोही आतां ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे मेलों सांगतसांगतां । तें चि आलें आतां कळों तुह्मां ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Now I have come to know through experience that I am truly fallen, O Lord. Whatever You would do, do it now and openly; let nothing remain unsettled between us. To give each side an equal hearing requires no further witness. Says Tuka, I am dying in the telling; now at last let that much be clear to You.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
In Plain Words
Now I know it truly, by experience: I am fallen, O Lord. Whatever you mean to do, do it now, and do it openly; let nothing be left unsettled between the two of us. To give each side a fair hearing needs no other witness. Tuka says: I am dying in the very telling of this; now at last let that much become clear to you.
What it means
Tukaram brings his case to God and asks for it to be closed, not softened. He no longer pleads innocence; he has come to know firsthand that he is fallen, and he wants the matter settled openly rather than left hanging between them. He says no third party need testify, because the two of them already see the whole of it. The urgency is real: he says he is dying even as he speaks, worn out by the long telling. The prayer is for resolution itself, for God to act at last and let the truth between them stand plain.
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