As the feeling so the fruit, like draws like
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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In Plain Words
As the feeling, so the fruit. Force does not work with God. Caste runs to its own caste; the sign passes between them, heart to heart. A diamond is drawn from the ore by another diamond. Tuka says: what was done that is good is this, that the mind was made pure.
What it means
Tukaram states a law of the inner life: you reap according to the feeling you bring, not the effort you push. You cannot strong-arm God; pressure has no purchase there. He shows it by likeness. Like seeks like, kind recognizes kind, and a diamond is cut and lifted from the rock by its own kind. So too, a pure heart draws God, who answers in kind. The one thing worth doing, then, is not to force a result but to cleanse the mind, for the purified heart is what the fruit answers to.
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