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Tukaram

Ordinary Life as Prayer

A Tukaram-inspired abhang page on daily life becoming the place of devotion.

Why return to it: Tukaram’s honesty makes devotion practical: not escape from the day, but truthfulness inside it.

Included here: Source-safe original/transliteration where appropriate and a poetic English rendering.

Original / source note

Source note: This is a thematic, source-safe rendering inspired by Tukaram’s abhang world.

English transliteration

Ghar, kām, thakān — yethūn bhaktī surū hote.

Poetic English rendering

Household, work, fatigue — devotion begins here too. The saint does not need a distant mountain when the ordinary day has already become a teacher.