Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
तें हीं नव्हे जें करितां कांहीं । ध्यातां ध्यायीं तें ही नव्हे ॥1॥
तें ही नव्हे जें जाणवी जना । वाटे मना तें नव्हे ॥ध्रु.॥
तें ही नव्हे जें भोंवतें भोंवे । नागवें धांवे तें ही नव्हे ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे एक चि आहे । सहजिं पाहें सहज ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
What is done through effort, that is not It. What is reached through meditation, that is not It either. What is taught to others as knowledge, that is not It. What the mind imagines, that is not It. What revolves and circles about, that is not It. What runs naked and stripped, that is not It. Says Tuka, there is only one reality. Look naturally at what is naturally present.
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