Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
कांहीं च मी नव्हें कोणिये गांवींचा । एकट ठायींचा ठायीं एक ॥१॥
नाहीं जात कोठें येत फिरोनियां । अवघें चि वांयांविण बोलें ॥ध्रु.॥
नाहीं मज कोणी आपुलें दुसरें । कोणाचा मी खरें कांहीं नव्हे ॥२॥
नाहीं आम्हां ज्यावें मरावें लागत । आहों अखंडित जैसे तैसे ॥३॥
तुका म्हणे नांवरूप नाहीं आम्हां । वेगळा ह्या कर्मा अकर्मासी ॥४॥
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Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
I belong to no village at all; I am alone, one with the One. I go nowhere and return from nowhere; all that I speak is without substance. I have no one who is mine, nor do I truly belong to anyone. I do not need to live or to die; I remain as I am, unbroken and unchanged. Says Tuka, I have neither name nor form; I am apart from both action and inaction.
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