Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
 सिंदळीसी नाहीं पोराची पैं आस । सांटविल्याबीजास काय करी ॥1॥
 अथवा सेतीं बीज पेरिलें भाजोन । सारा देइल कोण काका त्याचा ॥2॥
 तुका ह्मणे नाहीं खायाची ते चाड । तरि कां लिगाड करुनी घेतोस ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
A faithless woman has no care for the child she bears. What use is a seed once it has been stored away? Or if a roasted seed is sown in a field, who will pay the rent on such a crop? Says Tuka, if you have no desire to eat the fruit, then why do you take on the entanglement at all?
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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