Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
काय करूं आतां माझिया संचिता । तेणें जीववित्ता साटी केली ॥1॥
न ह्मणावें कोणी माझें हें करणें । हुकुम तो येणें देवें केला ॥ध्रु.॥
करूनि मोकळा सोडिलों भिकारी । पुरविली तरी पाठी माझी ॥2॥
पाणिया भोंपळा जेवावया पानें । लाविलीं वो येणें देवें आह्मां ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे यासी नाहीं वो करुणा । आहे नागवणा ठावा मज ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What can I do about my own destiny? It has traded away my life and livelihood. Let no one say this was my doing; the order was given by God Himself. Having freed me, He released me as a beggar, yet He has stood behind me all along. A gourd for water, leaves for a plate: this is what God has given us. Says Tuka, He has no mercy; but His ways of stripping us bare are well known to me.
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Surrender and Acceptance
The conditions of spiritual receptivity and the letting go of the separate self.
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