Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
कोरडिया ऐशा सारून गोष्टी । करा उठाउठीं हित आधीं ॥1॥
खोळंबला राहे आपुला मारग । पहावी ते मग तुटी कोठें ॥ध्रु.॥
लौकिकाचा आड येइऩल पसारा । मग येरझारा दुःख देती ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे डांख लागे अळंकारें । मग नव्हे खरें पुटाविण ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Put aside these dry, empty conversations and attend to your true welfare first. When the right path is blocked, the traveler stalls; then see where the real loss lies. The grand display of worldly appearances will come in the way, and then the restless coming and going will bring only sorrow. Says Tuka, ornament only causes scratching; without being tested in fire, nothing proves genuine.
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Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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