Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
संदेह निरसे तरि रुचिकर । फिक्यासी आदर चवी नाहीं ॥1॥
आतां नको मज खोटएानें फटवूं । कोठें येऊं जाऊं वेळोवेळां ॥ध्रु.॥
गेला तरि काय जीवाचें सांकडें । वांचउनि पुढें काय काज ॥2॥
तुका ह्मणे कसीं निवडा जी बरें । केलीं तैसीं पोरें आळीपायीं ॥3॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
If doubt is removed, then the taste is delightful. The bland holds no appeal. Now do not deceive me with falsehood anymore. Where should I keep going back and forth? If my life departs, what hardship is that? What use is living with such longing unfulfilled? Says Tuka, test us well and fairly. You have made us like children placed in Your care.
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Longing and Separation
Cries from the dark night of the soul: remonstrances, complaints, and desperate yearning.
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