Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
जैशासाठीं तैसें हावें । हें बरवें कळलेंसे ॥1॥
उदास तूं नारायणा । मी ही ह्मणा तुह्मी च ॥ध्रु.॥
ठका महाठक जोडा । जो धडफुडा लागासी ॥2॥
एकांगी च भांडे तुका । नाहीं धोका जीवित्वें ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
For whatever purpose, one must become accordingly. This good thing has become known. You are udasina, O Narayana. I too, I say, am You Yourself. Cheat, great cheat, a pair. The direct one is the one who gets it. Says Tuka, I argue alone, on one side. There is no danger to the jiva.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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