Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
आपुले वरदळ नेदा । एवढी गोविंदा कृपणता ॥1॥
यावर बा तुमचा मोळा । हा गोपाळा कळेना ॥ध्रु.॥
सेवा तरी घेतां सांग । चोरिलें अंग सहावेना ॥2॥
तुका जरी क्रियानष्ट । तरी कां कष्ट घेतसां ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
He will not give even His own leftover garland. Is this Your miserliness, O Govinda? This stubbornness of Yours is beyond my understanding, O Gopala. You do accept our service, that much is clear; yet You cannot bear to give even a bit of Yourself. Says Tuka, even if I am unworthy in action, then why do You keep laboring over me?
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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