Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
कासया जी ऐसा माझे माथां ठेवा । भार तुह्मी देवा संतजन ॥1॥
विचित्र विंदानी नानाकळा खेळ । नाचवी पुतळे नारायण ॥ध्रु.॥
काय वानरांची अंगींची ते शिH । उदका तरती वरी शिळा ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे करी निमित्य चि आड । चेष्टवूनि जड दावी पुढें ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Why, O God and saints, have You placed this burden upon my head? The Lord of wondrous design plays manifold arts and makes the puppets dance. What power did the monkeys possess in their own bodies? Yet stones floated on the water by His will. Says Tuka, He merely places a pretext before the world, and through it makes even the inert move and act.
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