Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
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मराठी मूळ
 एक ते गाढव मनुष्याचे वेष । हालविती पुस पुढें दाढी ॥1॥
 निंदा हें भोजन जेवण तयांसी । जोडी घरीं रासी पातकांच्या ॥2॥
 तुका ह्मणे सुखें बैसोनियां खाती । कुंभपाकीं होती नर्कवासी ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Some are donkeys in human form, wagging their whiskers and stroking their beards. Slander is their daily meal; they heap up stores of sin at home. Says Tuka, they sit and eat contentedly, but they will dwell in the boiling hell of Kumbhapaka.
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समाज टीका
Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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