Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
 पोरा लागलीसे चट । धरी वाट देवळाची ॥1॥
 सांगितलें नेघे कानीं । दुजें मनी विठ्ठल ॥ध्रु.॥
 काम घरीं न करी धंदा । येथें सदा दुिश्चत्त ॥2॥
 आमुचे कुळीं नव्हतें ऐसें । हें चि पिसें निवडलें ॥3॥
 लौकिकाची नाहीं लाज । माझें मज पारिखें॥4॥
 तुका ह्मणे नरका जाणें । त्या वचनें दुष्टाचीं ॥5॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The boy has caught the obsession; he keeps running to the temple. He will not listen to anyone; his mind holds only Vitthal. He does no work at home, always absent-minded here. Nothing like this ever happened in our family before; this peculiar madness has singled him out. He has no shame before the world; what is mine feels foreign to me. Says Tuka, those who speak such words are the wicked ones who are bound for hell.
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