Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
वदे वाणी परि दुर्लभ अनुभव । चालीचा चि वाहो बहुतेक ॥1॥
आह्मी ऐसें कैसें राहावें निश्चळ । पाठिलाग काळ जिंतितसे ॥ध्रु.॥
वाढवितां पोट दंभाचे पसारे । येतील माघारे मुदला तोटे ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे बरें जागवितां मना । तुमच्या नारायणा अभयें करें ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The tongue speaks, yet genuine experience is rare. The flow of habit carries most people along. How are we to remain steady and still? Time pursues from behind and keeps defeating us. In feeding the belly with the spread of hypocrisy, the principal itself will come back as loss. Says Tuka, it is good to keep the mind awake. By Your fearless grace, O Narayana, let us act.
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