Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
जरी मी नव्हतों पतित । तरि तूं पावन कैंचा येथ ॥1॥
ह्मणोनि माझें नाम आधीं । मग तूं पावन कृपानिधी ॥ध्रु.॥
लोहो महिमान परिसा । नाहीं तरीं दगड जैसा ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे याचकभावें। कल्पतरु मान पावे ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
If I were not a sinner, how then would You be called the Purifier? Therefore my name must come first, and then Yours as the merciful redeemer. Iron gives the touchstone its glory; without it, the touchstone is just another stone. Says Tuka, the wishing-tree gains its honor through the one who comes to ask.
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Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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