Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
कळों येतें तरि कां नव्हे । पडती गोवें भ्रमाचे ॥1॥
जाणतां चि होतो घात । परिसा मत देवा हें ॥ध्रु.॥
आंविसासाटीं फासा मान । पाडी धनइच्छा ते ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे होणार खोटें । कर्म मोटें बिळवंत ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
If you can see the truth, why do you fall into the snares of delusion? Even with full knowledge, ruin comes. Hear this view of mine, O God. For the sake of a morsel of bait, one puts one's neck in a noose. The desire for wealth causes the downfall. Says Tuka, what is to come is false and crooked. Karma is great and powerful.
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