Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
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मराठी मूळ
किती चौघाचारें । येथें गोविलीं वेव्हारें ॥1॥
असे बांधविले गळे । होऊं न सकती निराळे ॥ध्रु.॥
आपलें आपण । केलें कां नाहीं जतन ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे खंडदंडें । येरझारीं लपती लंडें ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
How many have been ensnared by social convention and worldly dealings? Their necks are bound, and they cannot free themselves. Why did you not guard what was your own? Says Tuka, in the tug-of-war of penalties, the cowardly hide in the back and forth.
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संसार
Worldly Life
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