Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
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मराठी मूळ
गाढवाचें तानें । पालटलें क्षणक्षणें ॥1॥
तैसे अधमाचे गुण । एकविध नाहीं मन ॥ध्रु.॥
उपजतां बरें दिसे । रूप वाढतां तें नासे ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे भुंकते वेळे । वेळ अवेळ न कळे ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The braying of a donkey shifts and changes moment to moment. Such are the qualities of the base: the mind is never of one kind. At birth it appears good; as the form grows, that goodness is destroyed. Says Tuka, when it barks, it knows not the right time from the wrong.
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समाज टीका
Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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