Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
अवगलासीं झोंडपणें । परी मी जाण जीवें जिरों नेदीं ॥1॥
कळों येइऩल रोकडें । उभा करिन संतांपुढें ।
तुझें काय एवढें । भय आपुलें मागतां ॥ध्रु.॥
आजिवरी होतों नेणता । तों तुज फावलें रे अनंता ।
कवडीचा तो आतां । पडों नेदीन फेर ॥2॥
ठेविला ये जीवनीं जीव । ह्मणे तुकयाचा बंधव ।
माझा गळा तुझा पाव । एके ठायीं बांधेन ॥3॥
मागें असताशी कळला । उमस घेऊं नसता दिला।
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
You have dodged and squirmed, but know that I will not let this pass while I live. I will bring this into the open and stand You before the saints. Is Your claim so great that You should fear our small request? Until now I was ignorant and You had Your way, O Infinite One. But now I will not let You off for even a cowrie's worth. Says Tukya-bandhu, I have staked my life on this. My throat and Your feet are bound together.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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