Inner experience, remembrance is enough
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
एक भाव चित्तीं । तरीं न लगे कांहीं युक्ती ॥1॥
कळों आलें जीवें । मज माझियाचि भावें ॥ध्रु.॥
आठव चि पुरे । सुख अवघें मोहो रे ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे मन । पूजा इच्छी नारायण ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
When there is single-minded devotion in the heart, no technique or strategy is needed. I have come to know this through my own experience and my own feeling. Mere remembrance is enough; all joy arises from that alone. Says Tuka, the mind itself yearns to worship Narayana.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
In Plain Words
With one whole feeling in the heart, no technique is needed at all. I have come to know this in my own life, through my own feeling. Remembrance alone is enough; from it comes all joy, all love. Tuka says: the mind itself longs to worship Narayana.
What it means
Tukaram speaks from what he has tested, not from instruction. Where the heart holds a single, undivided devotion, the elaborate methods and strategies fall away as unnecessary. He says he learned this firsthand, through his own inner experience, not by argument. Simple remembrance of God turns out to be enough, and all joy and love flow from it, so the mind, far from resisting, comes to desire the worship of Narayana on its own.
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