Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
जडलों अंगाअंगीं । मग ठेवीं प्रसंगीं । कांहीं उरीजोगी। लोकीं आहे पुरती ॥1॥
ठेवीं निवारुनि आधीं । अवकाश तो चि बुद्धी । सांपडली संधी । मग बळ कोणासी ॥ध्रु.॥
गळा बांधेन पायीं । हालों नेदीं ठायिचा ठायीं । निवाड तो तइप । अवकळा केलिया ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे ठावे । तुह्मी असा जी बरवे । बोभाटाची सवे । मुळींहुनी विठोबा ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
I have clung to You, body against body. Now keep me close at hand. There is enough still to manage in this world. First remove the obstacles. Clear a space, and that space itself is buddhi. Once the opportunity is seized, who has the strength to resist? I shall bind myself to Your feet. I will not let You stir from that spot. The reckoning comes after one has been humbled. Says Tuka, I know You well, O Vithoba. Loud crying out is in Your very nature, from the root.
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