Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
गौळीयाची ताकपिरें । कोण पोरें चांगलीं ॥१॥
येवढा त्यांचा छंद देवा । काय सेवा भक्ती ते ॥ध्रु.॥
काय उपास पडिले होते । कण्याभोंवते विदुराच्या ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे कुब्जा दासी । रूपरासी हीनकळा ॥३॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What were the milkmaids but women with buttermilk vessels, and what were their children but ordinary ones? Yet what an obsessive passion they had for God; what great devotion did they perform? What feast had Vidura prepared? Just coarse grain and husks. Says Tuka, and Kubja was a hunchbacked maidservant, devoid of beauty or art, yet the Lord gave himself to her.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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