Devotion, the house where peace lives
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
भक्तीचें वर्म जयाचिये हातीं । तया घरी शांति दया ॥1॥
अष्टमासििद्ध वोळगती द्वारीं । न वजती दुरी दवडितां॥ध्रु.॥
तेथें दुष्ट गुण न मिळे निशेष । चैतन्याचा वास जयामाजी ॥2॥
संतुष्ट चित्त सदा सर्वकाळ । तुटली हळहळ त्रिगुणाची ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे येथें काय तो संदेह । आमचें गौरव आह्मी करूं ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
In the home of one who holds the secret of devotion, there dwell peace and compassion. The eight mystic powers wait at his door and will not leave even when driven away. No evil quality can enter where pure consciousness resides. The mind is content at all times; the agitation of the three gunas has been severed. Says Tuka, what doubt can remain here? We shall celebrate our own glory.
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In Plain Words
In the house of one who holds the secret of devotion, peace and compassion live. The eight mystic powers wait at his door. Drive them away, and they will not go far. No evil quality can enter there. Pure consciousness lives in that place. The mind is content, always, at every hour. The ache of the three gunas has been cut. Tuka says: what doubt is left here? We will sing our own glory.
What it means
Tukaram describes what devotion does to a person from the inside. He says the one who carries the secret of bhakti becomes a house where peace and compassion settle, and where the very powers that others chase, the eight siddhis, hang about the door uninvited and refuse to leave. The point is not the powers but the indifference to them: when consciousness itself is at home in you, no wicked quality can find a foothold, and the restless pull of the three gunas, the whole machinery of craving and reaction, goes quiet. The closing boast is deliberate. Having given himself away to God, he claims the right to celebrate the glory that is now his, because it is no longer separate from God's.
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