Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
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मराठी मूळ
महारासि सिवे । कोपे ब्राम्हण तो नव्हे ॥१॥
तया प्रायश्चित्त कांहीं । देहत्याग करितां नाहीं ॥ध्रु.॥
नातळे चांडाळ । त्याचा अंतरीं विटाळ ॥२॥
ज्याचा संग चित्तीं । तुका म्हणे तो त्या याती ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
A Brahmin who rages at the touch of a Mahar is no Brahmin at all. For that, no atonement exists, not even giving up the body. He will not touch a Chandala, yet the pollution lives inside him. Tuka says: whoever you keep company with in consciousness, you belong to that jati.
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समाज टीका
Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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