Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
टाक रुका चाल रांडे कां गे केली गोवी । पुसोनियां आलें ठाव म्हणोनि देतें सिवी ॥१॥
आतां येणें छंदें नाचों विनोदें । नाहीं या गोविंदें माझें मजसी केलें ॥ध्रु.॥
कोरडे ते बोल कांगे वेचितेसी वांयां । वर्ते करूनि दावीं तुझ्या मुळीचिया ठाया ॥२॥
याजसाठीं म्या डौर धरियेला हातीं । तुका म्हणे तुम्हा गांठी सोडायाची खंती ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Toss a coin and move on, you wretch; why have you tangled yourself? I have wiped the old slate clean and will stitch a new border in its place. Now let us dance in this rapture of play. Govinda has made me a stranger to myself. Why do you waste those dry, empty words? Show me by your actions where your real origin lies. Says Tuka, it is for this very reason I have taken the drum in my hand: to untie the knot that binds you.
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