Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
पाय डोळे म्हणतां माझे । तींहीं कैसा मोकलिलों । परदेशीं नाहीं कोणी । अंध पांगुळ जालों ॥१॥
आतां माझी करीं चिंता । दान देई भगवंता । पाठीं पोटीं नाहीं कोणी । निरवीं सज्जन संता ॥ध्रु.॥
चालतां वाट पुढें । भय वाटतें चित्तीं । बहुत जन गेलीं नाहीं आलीं मागुतीं । न देखें काय जालें।
कान तरी ऐकती । बैसलों संधिभागीं । तुज धरूनि चित्तीं ॥२॥
भाकितों करुणा गा । जैसा सांडिला ठाव । न भरें पोट कधीं नाहीं निश्चळ पाव । हिंडतां भागलों गा ।
लक्ष चौर्यां शी गांव । धरूनि राहिलों गा । हा चि वसता ठाव ॥३॥
भरवसा काय आतां । कोण आणि अवचिता । तैसी च जाली कीर्ति । तया मज बहुतां ।
म्हणउनि मारीं हाका । सोयी पावें पुण्यवंता । लागली भूक थोरी । तूं चि कृपाळू दाता ॥४॥
संचित सांडवलें । कांहीं होतें जवळीं । वित्त गोत पुत माया । तुटली हे लागावळी ।
निष्काम जालों देवा । होतें माझे कपाळीं । तुका म्हणे तूं चि आतां । माझा सर्वस्वें बळी ॥५॥
देखत होतों आधीं । मागें पुढें सकळ । मग हे दृष्टी गेली । वरी आले पडळ ।
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
My eyes and my feet have failed me, and I am left blind and lame in a foreign land with no one at my side. Now take care of me, O Lord; give me your gift. I have no one before or behind me; entrust me to the company of the good. Fear grips my heart on the road ahead, for many have gone that way and never returned. I sit at the crossroads, holding only you in my mind. I cry for mercy; my belly is never filled, and there is no steady ground beneath my feet. I have wandered through eighty-four hundred thousand births and settled at last in this one place. Says Tuka, you alone are now my everything; all possessions, kin, and attachments have fallen away, and I am left desireless.
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