Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
 चाले हें शरीर कोणाचिये सत्ते । कोण बोलवितें हरीविण ॥1॥
 देखवी दाखवी एक नारायण । तयाचें भजन चुकों नका ॥ध्रु.॥
 मानसाची देव चालवी अहंता । मी चि एक कर्त्ता ह्मणों नये ॥2॥
 वृक्षाचीं हीं पानें हाले त्याची सत्ता । राहिली अहंता मग कोठें ॥3॥
 तुका ह्मणे विठो भरला सबाहीं । तया उणें कांहीं चराचरीं ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
By whose power does this body move? Who makes it speak, if not Hari? It is Narayana alone who causes all seeing and showing. Do not neglect His worship. God drives the ego of the human mind. One should not say that I alone am the doer. Even the leaves of a tree stir only by His power. Where then does the ego stand? Says Tuka, Vitthal fills everything on all sides. Nothing in the whole creation is lacking in Him.
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