Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
बीज भाजुनि केली लाही । आह्मां जन्ममरण नाहीं॥1॥
आकाराशी कैंचा ठाव । देहप्रत्यक्ष जाला देव ॥ध्रु.॥
साकरेचा नव्हे उस । आह्मां कैंचा गर्भवास ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे औघा योग । सर्वां घटीं पांडुरंग ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The seed has been roasted into puffed grain; for us there is no more birth and death. Where can form find a foothold when the body itself has become God? Sugar cannot return to sugarcane; how then can we return to the womb? Says Tuka, by the common path of yoga, Panduranga dwells in every being.
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