Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
किती या काळाचा सोसावा वळसा । लागला सरिसा पाठोवाठीं ॥1॥
लक्ष चौयाशीची करा सोडवण । रिघा या शरण पांडुरंगा ॥ध्रु.॥
उपजल्या पिंडा मरण सांगातें । मरतें उपजतें सवें चि तें ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे माळ गुंतली राहाटीं । गाडग्याची सुटी फुटलिया ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
How long will you endure the circling grip of Time, which follows you relentlessly? Free yourselves from the eighty-four lakh births; take refuge in Panduranga. The moment the body is born, death is its companion; the dying and the being born are joined together. Says Tuka, like pots strung on a waterwheel, the chain is broken only when the pot shatters.
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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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