Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
सदैव तुह्मां अवघें आहे । हातपाय चालाया ॥1॥
मुखीं वाणी कानीं कीतिऩ । डोळे मूर्ती देखाया ॥ध्रु.॥
अंध बहिर ठकलीं किती । मुकीं होती पांगुळें ॥2॥
घरास आगि लावुनि जागा। न पळे तो गा वांचे ना ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे जागा हिता । कांहीं आतां आपुल्या ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
You are fortunate, for you still have everything. Your hands and feet still move. Your mouth has speech, your ears can hear kirtan, your eyes can behold the divine form. Think of how many are blind, how many deaf, how many mute, lame, or crippled. One who sets fire to one's own house and does not flee cannot survive. Says Tuka, wake up now; attend to your own welfare.
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Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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