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गाथा 1260The Necessity of Experience

Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha

मराठी मूळ

मज अंगाच्या अनुभवें । काइऩ वाइऩट बरें ठावें ॥1॥

जालों दोहींचा देखणा । नये मागें पुढें ही मना ॥ध्रु.॥

वोस वसती ठावी । परि हे चाली दुःख पावी ॥2॥

तुका ह्मणे घेऊं देवा । सवें करूनि बोळावा ॥3॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation

By my own bodily experience I have come to know what is good and what is bad. I have seen both sides and my mind no longer wanders forward or backward. I know the dwellings of emptiness, yet this habitual path leads only to suffering. Says Tuka, let us take God along with us and bid farewell to the rest.

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अनुभव

The Necessity of Experience

Why direct experience of God, not mere learning, is the only path.

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