Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
शूद्रवंशी जन्मलों । ह्मणोनि दंभें मोकलिलों ॥1॥
अरे तूं चि माझा आतां । मायबाप पंढरीनाथा ॥ध्रु.॥
घोकाया अक्षर। मज नाहीं अधिकार ॥2॥
सर्वभावें दीन । तुका ह्मणे यातिहीन ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
I was born in a lowly caste, and so I was abandoned to my own pretensions. But now You alone are my everything, O Lord of Pandhari, my mother and father. I have no right to recite the sacred syllables. Says Tuka, I am utterly humble, bereft of caste and station.
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