Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
करावी ते पूजा मनें चि उत्तम । लौकिकाचें काम काय असे ॥१॥
कळावें तयासि कळे अंतरींचें । कारण तें साचें साचा अंगीं ॥ध्रु.॥
अतिशया अंतीं लाभ किंवा घात । फळ देतें चित्त बीजा ऐसें ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे जेणें राहे समाधान । ऐसें तें भजन पार पावी ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Worship should be done with an excellent chitta; what is the use of work done for worldly show? What is to be known, that One knows what lies within; truth in the body is the cause that reaches the True One. Excess in the end brings either gain or ruin, for chitta yields fruit true to the seed. Says Tuka, the devotion by which contentment abides, that is the devotion that carries one across.
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True Worship
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