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गाथा 742The Necessity of Experience

Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram

मराठी मूळ

भाव तैसें फळ । न चले देवापाशीं बळ ॥1॥

धांवे जातीपाशीं जाती । खुण येरयेरां चित्तीं ॥ध्रु.॥

हिरा हिरकणी । काढी आंतुनि आहिरणी ॥2॥

तुका ह्मणे केलें । मन शुद्ध हें चांगलें ॥3॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation

As the feeling, so is the fruit; force has no power before God. Like attracts like; each recognizes the other in the heart. Just as a diamond is drawn from the mine by its own kind, so it is with devotion. Says Tuka, what matters is that the mind be made pure and clean.

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अनुभव

The Necessity of Experience

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

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