Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
तनजोबनकी कोन बराइऩ । ब्याधपीडादि स काटहि खाइऩ ॥1॥
कीर्त बधाऊं तों नाम न मेरा । काहे झुटा पछतऊं घेरा ॥2॥
कहे तुका नहिं समज्यात मात । तुह्मारे शरन हे जोडहि हात ॥3॥
देखत आखों झुटा कोरा । तो काहे छोरा घरंबार ॥ध्रु.॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What pride is there in the body and its youth? Disease and affliction will gnaw it all away. I would build a memorial, but my name is nowhere to be found. Why do you repent over this vain falsehood? Says Tuka, I cannot make you understand. I join my hands in surrender before You. The world lies bare before your eyes, yet you call it false and empty. Why then have you not abandoned home and household?
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Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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