Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
ग्रासोग्रासीं भाव । तरी देहिं च जेवी देव ॥1॥
धरीं स्मरण तें सार । नाहीं दुरी तें अंतर ॥ध्रु.॥
भोगितां तूं भावें । देव जेऊं बैसे सवें ॥2॥
तुज पावो देवा । भावें अंतरींची सेवा ॥3॥
गुंतला साधनीं । देव नाहीं त्रिभुवनीं ॥4॥
तुका ह्मणे हातीं । न धरितां गमाविती ॥5॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
If with every morsel you hold devotion, then God Himself dines with you in the body. Hold to that remembrance which is the essence; the distance is not great. When you eat with that feeling, God sits beside you at the meal. Through inner devotion, God reaches you. But one who is tangled in rituals alone will not find God in all three worlds. Says Tuka, those who do not hold Him in their hands will lose Him.
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