Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
 बोध्यअवतार माझिया अदृष्टा । मौन्य मुखें निष्ठा धरियेली ॥1॥
 लोकांचियेसाटीं शाम चतुर्भुज । संतांसवें गुज बोलतसां ॥ध्रु.॥
 आलें कलियुग माझिया संचिता । डोळां हाकलितां न पडेसी ॥2॥
 म्यां च तुझें काय केलें नारायणा । कां नये करुणा तुका ह्मणे ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
By my destiny, this teaching incarnation has sealed its lips in silence. For the sake of the world, You are the dark four-armed Lord, speaking Your secrets with the saints. The Kali Yuga has dawned according to my own past deeds; even when I search with my eyes, You do not appear. What have I done to You, O Narayana? Says Tuka, why does compassion not come?.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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