Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
विकल तेथें विका । माती नांव ठेवूनि बुका ॥1॥
हा तो निवाडएाचा ठाव । खया खोटएा निवडी भाव ॥ध्रु.॥
गहवारे हा विधि । पोट वाढविलें चिंधीं ॥2॥
लावूं जाणे विल्हे। तुका साच आणिक कल्हे ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Sell your wares where they are valued. Do not rename mud as sacred powder. This is the place of final reckoning, where truth is sifted from falsehood. The swaddling cloth of pretense has only fattened the belly with rags. Says Tuka, I know how to set the true apart from the false; the genuine from the counterfeit.
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Social Criticism
Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.
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