Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
आधी नाहीं कळों आला हा उपाय । नाहीं तरी काय चुकी होती ॥1॥
घालितो पायांसी मिठी एकसरें । नेदीं तो दुसरें आड येऊं ॥ध्रु.॥
कासया पडतों लटिक्याचे भरी । नव्हता का शिरीं भार घेतों ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे कां हे घेतों गर्भवास । कां या होतों दास कुटुंबाचा ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
If only this remedy had been known to me earlier, what a difference it would have made! Now I clasp His feet in one single embrace and refuse to let anything else come between us. Why did I keep falling for false burdens? Why did I not refuse the weight upon my head long ago? Says Tuka, why did I endure the suffering of the womb? Why did I become a slave to family and household?
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Devotion to Vitthal
Poems of praise, invocation, and intimate address to Lord Vitthal at Pandharpur.
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