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Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram

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वचनें ही नाड । न बोले तें मुकें खोड ॥1॥

दोहीं वेगळें तें हित । बोली अबोलणी नीत ॥ध्रु.॥

अंधार प्रकाशी । जाय दिवस पावे निशी ॥2॥

बीज पृथिवीच्या पोटीं । तुका ह्मणे दावी दृष्टी ॥3॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation

Speech can bring ruin, and silence can be a defect. True welfare lies apart from both, between speaking and not speaking. Darkness ends when light comes; the day departs when night arrives. Says Tuka, the seed lies hidden in the belly of the earth, yet in time it shows itself to the eye.

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The Necessity of Experience

Why direct experience of God, not mere learning, is the only path.

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