Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
 तुझें वर्म आह्मां कळों आलें सुखें । संतांचिया मुखें पांडुरंगा ॥1॥
 अवघा चि नट वाउगा पसारा । चेइऩला तूं खरा तूं चि एक ॥ध्रु.॥
 ह्मणउनि देहबुिद्ध नासिवंता । नातळे या चित्ता नेदावया ॥2॥
 सोय हे लागली पुढिलांची वाट । पावले जे नीट तुजपाशीं ॥3॥
 तुका ह्मणे नाहीं कोणासवें काज । बोलायाचें मज अंतरींचें ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Your secret has become happily known to me through the mouths of the saints, O Panduranga. This entire spectacle is a mere show, a vain display. You alone are the real one who has truly awakened. Therefore I will not let the perishable body-consciousness touch my mind. I have found the path of those who went before, those who reached You directly. Says Tuka, I have no business with anyone else. What I must speak is from the depths of my heart.
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