Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
जेविले ते संत मागें उष्टावळी । अवघ्या पत्रावळी करुनी झाडा ॥१॥
सोवळ्या ओंवळ्या राहिलों निराळा । पासूनि सकळां अवघ्यां दुरीं ॥ध्रु.॥
परें परतें मज न लागे सांगावें । हें तों देवें बरें शिकविलें ॥२॥
दुसर्यातें आम्ही नाहीं आतळत । जाणोनि संकेत उभा असे ॥३॥
येथें कोणीं कांहीं न धरावी शंका । मज चाड एका भोजनाची ॥४॥
लांचावला तुका मारितसे झड । पुरविलें कोड नारायणें ॥५॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
The saints have eaten and gone; I remain behind with the scraps and the leaf-plates to clean. I have stayed apart from all, far from the ritually pure and the ritually unclean. No one needs to teach me the rules of high and low; God himself has taught me well. I do not touch another's portion; I stand knowing my appointed place. Let no one harbor any doubt here; I care only for the meal of devotion. Says Tuka, I have been bribed by Narayana, and I rush to do his bidding; the Lord has fulfilled my heart's desire.
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