Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
षडधसीं रांधिलें खापरीं घातलें । चोहोटा ठेविलें मध्यरात्रीं ॥1॥
त्यासी सदाचारी लोक न शिवती । श्वानासी नििश्चती फावलें तें ॥ध्रु.॥
तैसें दुष्टकर्म जालें हरिभHा । त्यागिली ममता विषयासिH ॥2॥
इहपरलोक उभय विटाळ । मानिती केवळ हरिचे दास ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे देवा आवडे हे सेवा । अनुदिनीं व्हावा पूर्ण हेतु ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Food cooked in the six forbidden ways, placed in a broken pot, left at the crossroads at midnight: no virtuous person will touch it, but a dog surely finds it and eats it freely. Just so, when one becomes a devotee of Hari, all sinful karma is abandoned. The pleasures of this world and the next are both considered defilement by the true servants of Hari. Says Tuka, O God, may this service be dear to You, and may my devotion be fulfilled day after day.
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Renunciation
The case for letting go of worldly attachments and turning wholly to God.
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