Devotion, the Name needs only faith
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
तुझें नाम पंढरिनाथा । भावेंविण नये हाता ॥1॥
दाहां नये विसां नये । पंनासां साटां नये ॥ध्रु.॥
शां नये सहस्रा नये। लक्षकोडीलागीं नये ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे पंढरिनाथा । भावेंविण नये हाता ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The name of the Lord of Pandhari cannot be obtained without true devotion. It cannot be bought for ten, twenty, fifty, or sixty coins. It cannot be had for a hundred, a thousand, or even millions. Says Tuka, O Lord of Pandhari, without devotion it does not come into one's hands.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
In Plain Words
Your name, O Lord of Pandhari, does not come into the hand without faith. It cannot be bought for ten, nor for twenty, nor for fifty or sixty. Not for a hundred, not for a thousand, not for a million coins. Tuka says: O Lord of Pandhari, without faith it never comes into the hand.
What it means
Tukaram insists that the Name has only one price, and it is not money. He runs the numbers upward, ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, millions, to show that no sum can purchase it. What it asks for instead is bhava, true faith or feeling of the heart; the Name comes into your hand only when that is present. The repetition that frames the poem drives the single claim home: spiritual treasure is not bought, it is received by the heart that believes.
Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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