Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
देहबुिद्ध वसे जयाचियें अंगीं । पूज्यता त्या जगीं सुख मानी ॥1॥
थोर असे दगा जाला त्यासी हाटीं । सोडोनिया गांठी चोरीं नेली ॥ध्रु.॥
गांठीचें जाउनि नव्हे तो मोकळा । बांधिलासे गळा दंभलोभें ॥2॥
पुढिल्या उदिमा जालेंसे खंडण । दिसे नागवण पडे गांठी ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे ऐसे बोलतील संत । जाणूनियां घात कोण करी ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
One in whom body-consciousness resides takes pleasure in being honored by the world. A great deception has befallen him at the marketplace: thieves have stolen the bundle from his grasp. Having lost his capital, he is not free, for pride and greed have bound him by the neck. The trade ahead is ruined, and the swindle clings to him. Says Tuka, this is what the saints declare; who, knowing the danger, would still court destruction?
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