Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
देवाचे घरीं देवें केले चोरी । देवें देव नागवूनि केला भिकारी ॥1॥
धांवणियां धांवा धांवणियां धांवा । माग चि नाहीं जावें कवणिया गांवा ॥ध्रु.॥
सवें चि होता चोर घरिचिया घरीं । फावलियावरी केलें अवघें वाटोळें ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे येथें कोणी च नाहीं । नागवलें कोण गेलें कोणाचें काइऩ ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
In God's own house, God committed the theft; God robbed God and made God a beggar. Run, run for help! But there is no trail to follow and no other town to search. The thief was inside the house all along; when the chance arose, he swept everything clean. Says Tuka, truly no one is here; who was robbed, and what of anyone's has been lost?
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