Tukaram Gatha Abhang 533

Marathi Text

चालावा पंथ तो पाविजे त्या ठाया । ऐकिल्या वांयां वारता त्या ॥१॥
ऐका जी वोजे पडतसें पायां । भावचि तें जाया वाट नव्हे ॥ध्रु.॥
व्याली कुमारीचा अनुभवें अनुभव । सांगतां तो भाव येत नाहीं ॥२॥
तुका म्हणे येथें पाहिजे आरालें । बिंबीं निवळलें तरि भासे ॥३॥

Roman Script

1.     Chalava panth to paavije tya thaaya, aikilya vaaya vaarta tya

2.     Aike jee voje padatase paaya, bhhavchi te jaaya vaat navhe

3.      Vyalee kumaareeicha anubhave anubhav, saangata to bhaav yet nahi

4.      Tuka mhane yethe paahije aaraale, bimbee nivalale tari bhaase

Translation

1.      We should go by that path which takes you perfectly to the destination, where you want to reach. Once you reach there, all the other routes about which you have heard earlier, become irrelevant.

2.      I am prostrating at your feet, but please listen to me. The guaranteed path to reach God is the path of devotion. Isn't it so?

3.      The experience of labour is known to a woman who had delivered a child. But she can't tell that experience to a virgin woman.

4.     Tuka says, you need to have a pure heart in order to get the experience of God. We cannot see the Sun when it is blocked by a clouds. In the same way, if you have desires or doubts, you cannot view the Atman. But when all these vanish, and the mind becomes quiet (unclouded), you start seeing the bright Sun of Self Realization.

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