"Hey, catch him!" "get him..." "Be careful." "Run, you loser" "Savjidada (Brother Savji)" "Where's Tuka?" "We can't find him" "Hey..." "There's Tuka" "Hey, Tuka." "Hey, Tuka." "Tuka, is Vishnu telling the truth?" "You hugged God Pandurang?" "Answer me" "I didn't; he hugged me" "You are lying." "Should I give you a shock?" "We were playing tip and run" "With whom?" "With your friends or the God?" "You bad boy..." "We'll be cursed" "Your father's gone on the annual pilgrimage to seek His blessings" "And here you're committing sins" "Daughter-in-law, don't beat the child" "The Lord has no duplicity" "Don't cover up for Tuka" "On the pilgrimage, thieves rob travelers" "SomItimes, wolves attack and kill them" "These things happen when one sins" "Oh Lord..." "Mother, mother..." "Lord Vitthal (Pandurang), forgive the boy let his father rIturn safely" "Mother, Vitthal has never scolded me." "I promise!" "Go away;" "Go get lost forever..." "Why is Chandri (the cow) mooing?" "She's looking for her calf" "Savji, where is the calf?" "It was with Tuka." "You know it always follows him" "Where have they gone now, at dusk?" "You're always lost in your own world" "Where are Tuka and the calf?" "Uncle, come with me." "We'll look for them" "Why don't you go too?" "Mother, there's our calf" "Yes, it's ours." "It's looking bewildered come, let's go see come here you..." "My lettle darling." "So Tuka left you here?" "Its me find him;" "I'll beat him with a stick" "My poor baby..." "Hey, wait... wait." "Where are you going?" "Wait... wait." "Why are you running?" "Tuka?" "Tuka?" "What is this?" "Tuka what happened?" " What is this, Tuka?" "Tuka, don't be afraid." "We're here" "Who did this?" "Tuka, why did you do this?" "You told me to 'get lost forever'" "That doesn't mean you should bury yourself" "When Santya's grandfather died, they buried him" "Isn't it brother Savji?" "I must have been mad..." "to ask my own son to go away forever" "I'll never say that again... never!" "My lettle kid!" "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Glory to the Gods Rama and Krishna..." "Hundreds of devotees singing in one rhythm" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" "Walking mile after mile" "The body refuses to tire" "You chant vitthal's name and just flow with the devotees to melt him father..." "You mit Vithoba?" "Not 'mit'..." "I visited the idol let him sleep; he's tirred" "But he just said that the body doesn't tire" "Oh, this boy!" "Come on, go to bed" "Yes, come on - get up, my child" "And you rest a lettle tomorrow" " Okay" "Saru, come on..." "Oh Lord... father... father..." " yes?" "What Tuka?" "Is our village Vitthal different from the one in Pandharpur?" "No, he's the same, my boy" "Then why do you go there?" "You can't even melt him" "Don't tell anyone..." " What?" "I mit the Vitthal in our village" "Fine" " I'll even intrroduce you to him" "Grinding grain at dawn" "It's almost sunrise now" "My God helps me" "Wakes me up in time to milk the cows" "I grind the grain" "The soft flour falls" "May God bless my dear son Savji" "I grind the grain I am happy as I work" "My lettle Lord Krishna is asleep in my lap" "My lettle Lord Krishna is asleep in my lap" "Saru, come here" "So many people?" "He's started his money lending and trading" "I told him to atleast rest for a day" "But who listens to me?" "Go..." "Carefully dear" " Yes" "From Bolhoba Ambile, District Pune, Village Dehu Ghorpade Bhikaji, to buy a pair of bullocks and farming instruments has taken a loan of 25 gold coins for a six-month period" "If the loan is not paid back within the time frame an interest of 24% per gold coin will be levied per month" "That's too rmuch..." "Laxmidas Savkar only charges%" "Yes, but for how long?" "You always do this, Bhikaji" "The moment I stop to dip my pen in ink" "You ask for a longer term, lesser interest" "Bhikaji, your debt bond is ready" "Witnesses, give your thumb prints here" "The junior moneylender is learning fast" "What about you, Marotrao?" "I have two pieces of jewellery to pawn" "I need 10 gold coins for a month" "I need them today" "Unless the jeweller evaluates them I cannot accept valuables come to the rmarrkItplace on Mon dayn" "We'll get them evaluated" "But I really need the money" "Okay, fine" "Diwanji, make a draft of the mortgage bond and give him the cash" "I'm really grateful, Sir" "Offering" "How do you manage both money lending and the annual pilgrimage?" "One must know what to sell and what not to" "If someone offers a sack full of money would we sell the Lord's blessings?" "No, never" "Okay." "I have a lot to people to melt" "Goodbye" "Goodbye" "Savji... still at worship?" "Savji, Tuka..." "let's leave" "I'll go melt Mahadya" " Yes" "It's bitter to warn him before the attachment" "And what about resting?" "Tuka, come sit" "Come on" "Do it tomorrow, Aai (Mother)" "I can't send you out without a bracelet?" "Else' people will think our business is bankrupt" "You must wear good clothes, ear studs and a bracelet..." "Savji..." "Then why doesn't Savji wear one?" "He wants to be a fakir!" "It's enough if he wears decent clothes" "Shh... run off now" "Mother, can I go too?" " Okay" "Hey Ganya, Ishnya, Tukya" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Rama, Pandu, don't quarel" "It's playn trrapstick" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "The stick's up in the air" "The stick's up in the air" "Catch it" " Catch it come on, catch it" "Spin like a top" "Round and round" "Round and round" "You are a top; so am I" "We all go round and round" "On the tree, there's a beehive that bites" "Those bees are awesome" "They visit all the flowers" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Rama" " Pandu, don't fight" "It's playn trrapstick" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka, Santu, Dama, Paka" "Plunder all you can" "Precipitate Lord Rama's name" "Or you will repent" "After your life's gone" "After your life's gone" "Come on, get up Don't get tired" "Drop some, pile up some" "It's build these tiles" "Drop some, pile up some" "It's build these tiles" "The tiles are ready" "Lord Krishna's cows have run away" "He plays the flute" "He requests God" "To find his cows" "Hey heron, give me a cowrie" "The prayer has worked" "Now's our cowherd game" "Oh Lord, the ball's coming at us" "It's hit each otherr with it" "Hit him, and him!" "The ball's in the water" "It's all iurmp in" "Ganya's brother is a crybaby" "He cried and cried" "He fell in the water" "He cried and cried" "He fell in the water" "(Counting coins and dividing a gold coin into smaller coins)" "father" "What?" " How much would this be?" "F our pounds" "What?" " F our pounds" "And now?" "Stop your questions." "I'm doing accounts." "But how can you tell?" "I've grown up playing with weights and measures" "The weighing scale is like a God for us" "If we cheat, He'll never forgive us" "We may hold the scale But He's he one who balances it" "father, wrhen wrill I start guessing g corrrrectlyn?" " Afterr you become old" "When will I become old?" "After your old man goes to heaven" " What!" "Now don't ask me when your old man will go to heaven?" "What sort of ridiculous talk is this?" "Go Tuka, go have breakfast" "This boy's questions never cease" "Savji, after counting the coins..." "Instead of counting, he has arranged them in Lord Vitthal's shape" "My son, there's a time for work and a time for worship" "What will happen of this boy?" "It Maniula Savii's wrife come to live here" "Then see how he transforms" "When will she come here?" "The coming full moon day" "That's the message." "She's become a woman now" "Thank the Lord!" "I beg of you; don't throw the vessels" "Please, don't throw them" "Can you hearr me?" "Please, don't throw them" " Oh, Lord!" " Bring that here" "Sir, I swear by my mother" "There's not a grain of cereal in the house" "Please give us some time" "Sir, look at this bracelet" "So Mahadya, there's no grain but your son wears a silver bracelet." "How come?" "Sir, he found that while playing" "Enough of your lies..." "Give him the bracelet." "We don't want it" "We don't want it!" "My bracelet..." "Two water jugs, one silver bracelet..." "I don't know what people gain by lying" " Who?" "Mahadya." "He says he is in bad shape" "And his son wears this bracelet" "Show me" "Are you making a list?" "Tuka..." " Yes?" "come here" "Didn't you tell me you dropped this in the river?" "I lied" " Um?" "I gave it to Vishnu" "What for?" "He's my friend" "But a silver bracelet for friendship?" "Did I have a gold one?" "Thank God for that!" "But why did you lie?" "Mother, I won't lie again" "I'm sorry" "Go father, if you knewr that I gave vishnu this brracelet Would you have taken it back?" "Yes." "Because until our loan is paid back, every grain in Vishnu's house every piece of jewellery, belongs to us" "That's the agreement" "A moneylender has no friends father has been on pilgrrirmage so manyn times" "Ask him if he has mit orrd vitthal even on ce" "Lord Vitthal was frightened" "He thought it's some creditor come to collect his dues in a devotee's garb" "No, Father is not like that" "He has to be, Tuka" "Because he has to feed us" "We think we are rich because we have pawned things from others" "But that's not true" "It's our stomachs that are mortgaged to them" "father, rmayn I give that brracelet to vishnu?" "Okay my child" "I know you won't be happy till you do so" "Brother, look..." "Vishnu, hey Vishnu..." "Hey Vishnu..." "Vishnu, come here" "See this?" "The bracelet." "Take it" "I've asked my father" "Take it" "I don't want your bracelet" "A money lender's son is a cheat... just like him" "You give with one hand and take back with the other" "I don't want this" "The beloved daughter-in-law wants to eat a sweIt" "In a gold and silver bowl" "Your hair's long like a snake's coil" "The neighbours have gathered to see you" "The bond of marriage The body's scent of sandalwood" "The scent of sandalwood Take care of the house, my girl" "I'll give my dear girl a lovely name" "Anklets on her felt" "Armlets with lettle bells" "The lettle sifting fan murmurs" "As it stands against the wall" "She's matured now She blushes, my dear girl!" "She's matured now She blushes, my dear girl!" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Come wind or hail, the goods must not be damaged" "Yes" "Savji, this is for the wedding in Deshmukh's family" "Bidwai has asked us to send these spices as a gift" "Bidwai is the chief of the markIt and Deshmukh is the village head" "So this job must be perfect" "When you get there, greIt Mr. Deshmukh and introduce yourself" "Tell him that Ambilemerrchant From ehu village has sent spices" "Have you understood?" " Yes" "Have this for lunch" " Okay" "And tap your stick as you walk" "There are snakes and scorpions" " Yes" "See!" "Manjula (his wife) has arrived and he's become a responsible man" "He's quite a strapping lad Neither blind nor deaf" "Four donkeyns just disappearr before him" "How can we believe that story?" "I'll compensate you" "What compensation?" "This isn't something I had pawned to you" "They were live donkeys" "They bore burdens to feed my family" "Look, rrelax." "Theyn rmust have got lost" "They'll be back by morning" "Are they kids to get lost?" "By now, thieves must have stolen them and sold them off forget the ifs an d buts" "Take these two gold coins" "And let's close this matter" " But..." "I, Bolhoba Ambile beg for your forgiveness" "Such a big boy can't even look after donkeys" "I'm supposed to be satisfied with two gold coins" "What's the use?" "So you've ruined my reputation?" "You made your father apologise to a man who tends to donkeys" "I suppose you were in heavenly bliss" "Or do you think you're a saint?" "My child, losing oneself in worship and prayer is meant for older people like us, not for you?" "Now do you want me to start delivering spices from door to door?" "And how do I face the Bidwai?" "What do I tell him?" "Now, I'll start delivering the spices and collecting the dues myself" "You sit here and pray come have your lun ch" "I don't want lunch" "Tuka, come here" "come" "Now you are big enough" "From tormorrrrowr, you wrill loin your father in his wrorrk" "What?" " Yes" "Go bow to the deity" "Time passes, the years go by" "The days of childhood are over" "Time passes, the years go by" "The days of childhood are over" "He's a grown-up man now" "Busy with his life" "He's a grown-up man now" "Busy with his life" "The heart is restless" "Relationships beckon" "On the threshold, under the awning" "The tinkle of bangles" "The vine clings to the roof" "The hand waves goodbye" "It's time to leave for work" "Time to make a living" "It's time to leave for work" "Time to make a living" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Music in their hearts" "And prosperity in their lives" "Music in their hearts" "And prosperity in their lives" "It's the same route as before" "Profit, loss and earning money" "There are both highs and lows" "The measure does the counting" "The deal is based on integrity" "The deal is based on integrity" "The wind carries the word" "It's an honest life" "We are ready to even conquer the Sun" "It's time to leave for work" "Time to make a living" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Ganya, Manya, Tuka" "Santu, Dama, Paka" "Rakhma?" " She's not well" "Rakhma" " Yes" "Why are you doing this?" "As it is, my asthma treatment is expensive" "I believe that doctor from Pune charged two gold coins" "This is not your parents' home (We can afford it)" "I'd have paid him even more if necessary" "You are the daughter-in-law of a rich moneylender" "You just be happy and cheerful when I rIturn home" "Tuka, Appa and Parvati have a grandson" "Great!" "Haven't they sent any sweIts?" "And SeIta's daughter-in-law is expecting" "So is that my fault?" "No, it's our fault!" "Wherever we go we have to hang our heads in shame" "If people get grandchildren, why are you ashamed?" "How long can I bask in their joy?" "Your grandmother died before seeing her great- grandchild" "Aai(Mother), let's not bring that up" "And there's nothing shameful about Rakhma not bearing a child" "What about my elder brother who's not being a good husband?" "You can't just joke and avoid what your mother is saying" "To take care of a huge business like ours, we must have heirs" "Also, nobody's asking you to abandon Rakhma" "If the first wife is childless, you can marry another." "That's the custom" "Some decisions may seem harsh but they have to be tackled" "I don't think that's necessary as yIt" "Rakhma" "What on earth are you up to?" "Not eating, not taking your medicines..." "Why do this?" "Your health will only dIteriorate further" "What's wrong Rakhma?" "Rakhma?" "Are you really worried about me?" "You really want me to get well?" "You know that I don't fake anything" "You see my suffering" "But not my inner grief" "Medicines only work if the mind is at peace" "I'm having sleepless nights" "What do I get well for?" "To see my in-laws' sorrow?" "I am unable to give them a grandchild" "And you stubbornly refuse to get a second wife" "Do you think I'll be angry if you do that?" "Or that I'll lose my position in this house?" "Am I that weak?" "Don't you have faith in yourself?" "You may have a second or third wife" "But in your heart will anyone be able to take my top spot?" "You will never push her on a swing" "So why would I be angry?" "You think only you alone have grown up" "I've also grown up with you" "listen to me..." "accept Gulve moneylender's daughter" "And then see" "Your Rakhma will be happier than ever before" "come" "God bless you" "May you bring joy to this house" "And bear many children" "Take the Lord's blessings" "Savji, your elder brother-in-law" "Manjula, your sister-in-law" "No, no, don't" "Come, I'll show you around our house" " Go" "First see the kitchen where wewomenspend all our time" "Mother-in-law smears the floor with cow dung" "It's her favourite job" "It's a lettle dark in here" "It's almost dusk..." "Where will the light come from?" "Our prayer room is twice this size" "Actually our whole house is a temple father-in-law neverr rmisses the annual pilgrrirmage" "And our brother-in-law almost lives here father-in-law?" "Brrotherr-in-law?" "So you are...?" " I'rm Rakhrma" "I thought you were his sister Saraswati" "That's okay" "You're not off the mark" "We'rre both his wrives." "Ike sisters who wrorship the same man" "What's he like?" "One in a million!" "How?" "Good or bad?" "Now how do I explain?" "Tell the truth" "He knows the business; he enjoys prayer!" "He's an obedient son;" "a devoted brother-in-law" "He's fond of his young brother Kanha" "He sings very well" "His friends can't do without him" "The calf won't eat unless he feeds it" "The house feels empty when he's not there" "That is Tukaram of the Ambile family!" "come in" "Wait!" "See the stars" "The stars come out when the moon rises" "The star upstairs is waiting for you" " Rakhma" "It's not nice that you should sit here alone" "The poor girl is bewildered as it is" "Come on now" "Come on now" "Go." "A person's true colours are seen under pressure" "Our Rakhma's turned out to be pure gold" "I don't know how I can repay her" "It's good fortune!" "You're right." "I'm fortunate to have such a daughter-in-law" "Not you." "Your daughter-in-law Rakhma is fortunate" "How can you say that?" "Her husband remarried..." "Her grief has a name" "Her sacrifice is worth something" "Also she has earned your praise" "When she crried in the darrk you grrieved with herr" "But you can't see my tears in broad daylight" "orrd, don't give me grrief that I can't even express" "Hurry up!" "Come on" "One baskIt of unhusked rice" "What else do you have?" "Tukaram Ambile." "One sack of rice" "Tukaram Ambile." "One sack of rice" "Six pice" "What?" "The duty has doubled in a mouth?" "The last time you must have had the same weight on a horse, not a bullock" "We'll bring it on a donkey if we wish" "With a donkey you'll save four pice" "The donkey might die under this weight" "What can we do?" "A rule is a rule" "God bless your rules!" "No... we will not pay the duty" "Sir, these men are creating a problem" "Bring them here" "Yes, let me go." "You think I'm afraid?" "Yes?" "This Digubhat refuses to pay the duty" "I repeat..." "I will not pay it" "You make us brahmins pay taxes to fill government coffers" "That's an unforgiveable sin" "We are taking two cows and 20 mounds of rice for the brahmins in the monastery" "Got it?" " No..." "You'll have to pay the duty" " Back to square one?" "You should ask for our blessings; not levy duties on us" "Come on... bring the cows" "What's this?" "If you don't collect duty from Digubhat I too won'tpayn for these silk cloths" "Brother, let's just pay the duty" "Why?" "Didn't he say that a rule is a rule?" "Four pice for two cows" "Again?" "This is the limit of impudence look Digubhat, because of you Tukaram Ambile also refuses to pay" "So what can I do?" "Tell me priest, why are you carrying all this?" "Why?" "Obviously for religious rites!" " Um" "The silk cloths we have are also for religious rites" "Digubhat, what's your job?" "Great." "Mr. Patki, this trading caste person doesn't even know that any religious rite in the town is not possible without us!" "And no worship is possible without wearing this silk cloth" "This brahmin doesn't even know all that!" "You idiot, we wear that." "We don't sell it" "But don't you charrge for your services?" "Of course!" "That is our right!" "And carrying on trade is our right!" "But it's not a sin to charge for service!" " Yes" "It's not a sin to do the work ordained for my caste!" "What's good or bad about paying duty?" "That's my point" "Our caste and our purpose have nothing to do with this duty" "Hey, stop that noise" "First, give this brahmin his rreceipt" "Everyone else get back to work" " Yes sir" "Come on, quick" " This is the rule of evil get our cows. let's go" "One baskIt of unhusked rice and a 'Pitamber' (Sacred Cloth)." "Alright." " Move ahead." "Hey, Joshi." "Come fast." "We are late." "Kayn..." " Fast." "Fast." "Now I'll have to work day and night to pay for all these taxes let's go." "Your cows look like they give a lot of milk Where did you buy them?" "From hell!" "When he said 'From hell', that brahmin looked like he'd swallowed some bitter medicine" "He must have cursed Tuka a million times as he paid his duty" "I don't care!" "I was so angry." "He behaved as though he was doing God a favour by running a monastery" "I hope you didn't insult him?" "There she goes" "But why take on these people?" "Mother, our relationship is directly with God Pandurang" "Do we compromise on our religious duties?" "Then why be scared of these middlemen?" "You don't worry Mother" "My brother's more than a match for them" "Yes, support your brother!" "Shevanta, ask your husband what he wants" "Go" "Serve him some more" "Hey, look after me too" "We lack the abilety to eat well" "One should speak less and eat more" "Um..." "I like this milk dessert" "Rakhma's made it" "Great!" "If you don't like the green vegetable, don't eat it" "You've made it?" "No wonder!" "I find it tastes even bitter than the dessert" "The mind keeps worrying Who knows what Destiny has in store for us!" "Tuka." "Yes Father?" "The signs don't look good!" "Why Father?" "Ike birrds can sense an earthquake moneylenders also have to be vigilant when a famine looms large" "The famer looks at the sky the moneylender at his capital" "Now's the time to collect our dues" "Do one thing." "Leave tomorrow at dawn" "Go to Bhikaji" "And collect all our pending dues" "He will complain "The seeds are burnt;" "it was no use sowing them"" "But don't listen to him" "Take from him whatever you can get" "And if there's no money, ask for jewellery" "But what's the rush Father?" "let one big shower of rain fall" "Then we will have a right to ask" "The rains are delayed somItimes" "Tell him this" "Say that the crop prospects are good" "But there's a problem at home" "Tell him that your father is seriouslyill" "I should lie to him?" "Isn't it true that the situation is serious?" "I will not tell a lie!" "But I'll handle this." "You don't worry" "And take 20 mounds of grain to Mr. Kulkarni" " Okay" "I've measured it." "Ask Ganpa to load it in the cart" " Yes" "Go away!" " What" "When I have to go to my parents' home, you decide to go out of town" "Shouldn't I obey my father?" "When I'm back, we'll take the bullock cart and head for Pune." "Okay?" "And what if the rains begin?" "We'll get wit" "How else would I see you all soaked?" "You are rarely bashful." "But you look lovely when you are" "You just praise my looks" "But you think Rakhma is a bitter cLook" "You only ask about my cough Your thoughts are elsewhere" "Why?" "Didn't I praise your milk dessert?" "You praised it?" " Of course!" "But you didn't ask why I made it" "When do we need a reason?" "Must be some festival" "You don't see any change in me?" "You have a co-wife to assist you now" "You seem a lettle chubby" "I had made a vow to the Goddess" "We'll have to go and fulfill it" "I'm four months pregnant" "Rakhma" "Really...?" "Yes." "I'm not a moneylender to tell lies" "See, weren't you hasty about getting me a second wife?" "Yes, I was let it be." "She brought good luck" "That's great!" "So it's her luck?" "All my prayers and vows are in vain!" "Oh Lord, having two scales at work, and two wives at home..." "Maintaining the correct balance is a problem!" "Has the sky fallen on you that you and your father can't even wait till the crop grows?" "The truth is that is that my father's old now" "So he worries more" "You owe us the most money" " Yes." "You've overstepped the loan period by six months" " Yes" "You and I are equally worried about the future" "Do one thing" "Give me one share of the dues now" " But..." "Give the rest after the crop" "This way my father will have one worry less in his old age." "...and I will have the satisfaction of having obeyed him" "Bhikaji, believe me." "I feel no joy in taking away this ornament" "There's no need to measure, Uncle" "My father has measured it" "Yes, but just because it's the custom" "That's fine by me" "It falls short by two mounds" "That's impossible" "He can tell the measure with just one look" "His estimate has not gone wrong in the last 20 years" "Count it again" "You count it if you like" "How much less?" "Two mounds" "How did Father's estimate go wrong?" "His estimate is correct" "Our times are to blame" "We're headed for famine Tuka" "Famine!" "His estimate is correct" "Our times are to blame" "We're headed for famine Tuka" "Famine!" "Brother!" "Kanha, what's wrong?" "What happened?" "Our Father's gone, brother father's dead" " What?" "Brother-in-law..." "Mother..." "Mother, how did this happen?" "How, Mother?" "Is this true?" "He was fine when I left" "He didn't even wait for me?" "Mother..." "He sent you to collect the dues and here God tLook him away" "Who dies?" "Who is born?" "Who goes to heaven or hell?" "The five elements that make up our bodies" "Live together in our bodies" "When they scatter after death" "All hope is at an end" "The pot is in the water and there's water in the pot" "There is water inside and outside" "When the pot (body) breaks, the waters mix" "This is the teaching of wise men" "This verse, by the saint-poIt Kabir, says that the Soul and the Supreme Being are one." "Listen." " Yes." "Just look at him closely" "Who does he resemble?" "His chin... the shape of his eyes..." "Doesn't he look like Father-in-law?" "Yes Rakhma, you are right" "A broad forehead, thick hair..." "Where are you off to?" "Showing mother-in-law." "Mother-in-law, you haven't looked at my baby properly" "Look" "Look, it's father-in-law come back" "See" "Isn't it?" "Tell your grandmother to look at me." "Kankayee..." "Kankayee..." "Kankayee..." " What happened?" "Mother-in-law..." "What happened?" " Mother..." "Mother-in-law..." " Mother..." "Mother-in-law..." "Mother..." "Mother..." "Mother..." "Mother..." "Mother..." "Mother..." "Brother, mother has passed away." "We have become orphans now." "What I had brought to show you..." "Mother..." "Mother..." "Mother-in-law..." "What are you searching for in this corner?" "Your mother's dead" "Who are you hiding from?" "What are you running away from?" "Come on and tell brother-in-law that his elder brother is still alive" "Tell him that you will look after the family" "That your shoulders are strong enough to bear the family's burden come on... your parentsare gone" "Now at least come back to earth." "Come on" "What happened?" "What happened?" "What sort of man is he?" "Unmoved even by his mother's death" "Is he a stone?" "No, he can't be" "Water can spring from a stone" "Tomorrow, even if I die this man will just wipe his eyes once and go away" "He doesn't need anyone" "I never complained to my parents" "Or to anybody in the village" "I only flung barbs at my mother-in-law" "She would listen quiItly" "Now who can I complain to?" "Talk to?" "This man will now mend his ways." "It's a curse orrd vitthal has cursed this house" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" "Serve me more sweIts" "Take care of each other now" "Your mother was one in a million" "She cared for everyone" "She loved everyone" "She wouldn't have been able to bear this famine" "So she left us behind and went away" "Take care, all of you" "for my husband..." "He has not eaten for two days" "Nothing's wrong." "Why would I lie?" "She was fine till yesterday" "Of course she was." "She's fine now too" " What's wrong?" "We just came to check on sister Manjula's health" " And?" "She's not telling us much" "Is sister-in-law okay?" "Yes." "She had a fever since morning but she's bitter now" "These people just won't listen" "What on earth?" "Goodbye" "Goodbye" "They came to snoop around" "If she dies, the brahmin gets his fees work for the man who cremates an d money for the wood-seller" "The florists will earn and the villagers will get another feast" "Even vultures wait for death to happen" "These people don't have even that patience" "Oh Lord, what more is in store for us?" "Brother-in-law, what happened?" "I spoke to Deshmukh (the village head)" "The situation's really bad in our area" "Told him there'd be no revenue this year" "He doesn't even have time to come here and ask after us?" "Yes, he should come and see for himself" "In Pune, Murarrao, a crazy commander of the Bijapur empire has sit fire to the whole city" "Deshmukh rushed there to help" "Just tell us how to survive" "Give us food Or kill us" "Yes, that's right..." " When our sins overflow, famine occurs" "We should have a sacrifice" "What do we offer the sacrificial fire?" "Human bodies?" "Try to understand" "Tatya, you are the oldest in the village" "Tell us what to do" "This famine reminds me of my great-grandfather telling me about another such famine" "It went on for 12 years" "Remember that the first casualty in a famine is humanity." "I'll tell you the story of Damoji, an officer who couldn't bear to see the plight of the people" "What did he do?" "He opened up the emperor's granary for them" "Isn't that wonderful?" "But Tatya there's no emperor with granaries in our village nor any officer to open them up" "What I get from this story is that those who have food to spare should share it with the entire village" "Great Tuka..." "It sounds good" "But everyone is concerned about the future" "Who would want to share?" "Tuka has no problem" "His father made lots of money" "He's not really affected by the famine yIt" "Is the rain that falls on my roof different?" "Maybe not" "But people are dying like flies in poor households" "It sounds good to hear the magnanimity in Tatya's story" "But it's difficult to emulate it in these tough times" "Yes, that's true. let's go" "Brother Savji is not to be seen" "He was at home during the morning prayer" "The servants have looked all over the village" "He can't be traced" "Come on" " Come" "Finallyn, brrotherr Savii has left" "He had no bonds left any more" "How could we stop him?" "I requested everyone at the melting that day" "But nobody offered" "So I am coming forward and opening up our grain silos" "I am no Damaji from Tatya's story" "Nor is this an emperor's granary" "This grain is due to my father's good deeds" "The prrovision he rmade for the farmilyn's futurre" "The village is my family" "So let us share this grain, taking only as much as we need to carry on with life" "That would be a mercy" " Yes indeed" "May God bless you, Tuka" "Kanha" "Move away" "What are you doing?" "Don't do that" "Come one by one." "Don't do that, brother" "Wait, wait" "get out" "Wait, wait" "Why did you, brother?" "for what?" "for whom?" "They don't deserve this" "I was telling you to stop him" "But who listens to me?" "Also, I don't have the status to tell you anything" "Relax." "The deed is done." "Come on" "That's the Problem, He's too relaxed!" "You've given away everything and you're satisfied" "Right?" "The people benefited" "But what about them?" " Avali..." "My baby will be born soon What about its future?" "Everything will be alright." "Don't cry" "He has lost everything" " Please don't cry" "Lord, I realize that people don't understand spiritualety" "But don't they know their own welfare?" "I wanted to make equal shares" "They just blasted my sentiments too" "What if it doesn't rain again this year?" "Baren skies" "Burning earth" "Baren skies" "Burning earth" "Relationships destroyed" "All around" "The seed in the soil" "Dead before sprouting" "The seed in the soil" "Dead before sprouting" "The eyes are moist" "As life weeps" "The pulse is slow" "Villages are scorched" "Narrowed eyes" "Scanning the sky" "Skeletal bodies" "Bodies as hearses" "Skeletal bodies" "Bodies as hearses" "All we melt is" "Misfortune" "The song is lost" "Words mean nothing" "The song is lost" "Words mean nothing" "The drum in the temple" "Is cracked" "The river has dried up" "The pennant is torn" "The cymbals of worship" "Have fallen silent" "How did this bud sprout?" "From where did it get water?" "And nutrition?" "How did it breach this rocky ground?" "What hope made it come out?" "Or has Lord Vithoba himself emerged as a symbol of hope amid this disaster?" "Oh sister-in-law, come out...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Everyone should realize" "The mine of this knowledge" "According to the wise" "Is writing and leterature" "It is indestructible" "The sky is the limit for it" "To run after liberation without true devotion" "Is no use at all" "This dItachment from worldly life comes to those who..." "Hey..." "Hey..." "Hey Tuka look there." "come." "Your name?" " Dhondiba Mohite" "What have you brought?" " Two ornaments" "We think we are rich because we have pawned things from others" "But that's not true" "It's our stomachs that are mortgaged to them" "A trader's son is a cheat..." "just like him" "You give with one hand and take back with the other" "His estimate is correct" "Our times are to blame" "We're headed for famine Tuka" "He sent you to collect the dues and here God Look him away" "The pot is in the water and there's water in the pot" "There is water inside and outside" "When the pot (body) breaks, the waters mix" "This is the teaching of wise men" "This verse, by the saint-poIt Kabir, says that the Soul and the Supreme Being are one." "Dada (Brother), Where are you going?" "Sister-in-law, come out" "Wait, brother Tuka" "Wait... he's not listening" "Dada (Brother)" " Listen." "Stop" " Stop Brother" "Brother" " Listen" "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "Giving to the river Indrayani the things that never belonged to us" "Have you lost your mind?" "Brother-in-law, at least think about us, these children" "Fine." "I'll irmmerse only my share of the ledgers" "Yes, do that" "First, you distributed all the grain" "Now immerse all the money" "What's the use of wealth that can do nothing for you in hard times?" "Oh Lord Pandurang" "Uttam, your jewellery" "Uttam Dhondiba - two bangles, one necklace" "You got your jwellery?" "Received." "Have you really given up money lending?" " Yes immersed all the papers?" "Yes." "I'm a free bird now" "You're hacking away at the pillars of your home" "How will you live?" "Uttam, move aside" "Now that you've got your stuff, you're concerned about him" "Give me the document for my land" "That's disappeared in the river Indrayani" "Disappeared?" "What?" "Tomorrow if you accuse me of having stolen them..." "What then?" "Give me in writing that I don't owe you anything" "Kanha, give it to him" "My bangles and bracelets?" "Your papers aren't here" "How come?" "Tukoba immersed his share of the papers" "Kanhoba's business is still on" "And why did I come in Kanha's share?" "What can we do about that?" "Why not?" "I'm an old widow;" "I'm getting my daughter married" "I won't leave till I get my bangles and bracelets" "I won't leave without my ornaments" "Hey you!" "Do you also want my brother-in-law to be insolvent?" "Leave now. get out, all of you" "Sister-in-law..." "What's wrong?" "He gave everything away" "He has squandered everything" "Take it easy" "Shevanta..." "What are you doing sister-in-law?" "I'm giving her the charge of this house" "But you are older than her" "What's the use of that?" "The one who takes care of the house is bigger" "It's enough if you just feed us" "If you stop caring who do we look up to?" "It us rrermain the way we are" "We don't want the burden of responsibilety" "And you don't worry" "Everything will get back to normal" "This is just a temporary whim of his" "Temporary or pemanent." "Who knows?" "You don't approve of what I did?" "forget the keyns." "I wrant to get away From this house" "Why?" "It is obsessed with Lord Vitthal" "What did you say?" "It's obsessed with Lord Vitthal!" "You know what people say?" "That I'm obsessed with you" "You pushed me to give up money lending" "And now I'm ruined!" "But they don't realize that Tuka is attracted not to material wealth but to the everlasting wealth that devotion to you gives him" "orrd, in orrderr to brrin g me closerr to you to become one with you you have liberated me from the bother of worldly problems" "Mother, give me some food." "I'm hungry" "Mahadev, Bhagu... come have lunch" "You too sister-in-law" "You've not had anything for two days" "Why are you doing this?" "It's been eight days that he's gone" "I wonder how he is and where" "How can I eat in peace?" "I'm dItermined too let me see how long he stays away" "h no, did you have to fly away because of me?" "come, my dear friends come sit by me" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "So are the birds who sing sweIt songs" "So are the birds who sing sweIt songs" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "This joy makes us long for soletude" "This joy makes us long for soletude" "Where we are not judged by anybody" "Where we are not judged by anybody" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" " Tuka!" "The sky is the roof and the earth the seat" "The sky is the roof and the earth the seat" "Our minds frolic where they find recreation" "Our minds frolic where they find recreation" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Tuka says that in soletude we can talk to ourselves" "Tuka says that..." "Tuka says that in soletude we can talk to ourselves" "We can converse with our inner beings" "We can converse with our inner beings" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "The flora and fauna are our kith and kin" "When did you come?" "While you were singing" "What a lovely song!" "And what does 'Tuka says' indicate?" "Have you created it?" "Maybe I created it; perhaps nature did" "Everyone's singing here" "The trees, animals, birds" "So, you too can write 'abhangs' (devotional verses)?" "The saint-poIt Namdev, along with Lord Vitthal Woke me up in my dreams" "They gave me the task of writing poetry" "And asked me not to indulge in empty talk" "That means we have the right to compose?" "Didn't Saint Namdev do it?" "Was he a brahmin?" "But he was a great man, a leader." "You are just Tukaram Ambile" "Dada, have you eaten?" "Didn't you feel lonely here?" "Lonely?" "With all this around me?" "But what's wrong with the village?" "These are people there too who care for you" "I like it there too" "When people work hard" "When the cobs of corn fill up" "It's a great feeling" "But there one is divided into too many parts" "Divisions of caste, divisions at home; barriers in the fields" "It's mine and yours all over!" "The heart is a place for lots of love" "But we have filled it with money matters" "How do we find joy there?" "And look here!" "The pond belongs to the one who sits by it" "You hear a bird's chirp; you own it" "We lose out on such simple joys!" "Yes, but God has created some other creatures for our joy" "And you owe them something too" "Who?" "Your wife, kids" "Sister-in-law hasn't eaten a bite since you left" "Oh no!" "Where did he go after storming out?" "Don't I have a right to react when he destroys all the papers?" "Why should he leave?" "Sister, he's rIturned" "Great!" "So where was he?" "On top of the hill" "The hill?" "Why?" "To drink in the breeze?" "There was no need to go there" "Here too, he behaved like he walked on air" "Got rid of ledgers; emptied grain bins let that go now..." "Oh yes; what a great man eaves before dawrn but rIturns in the evenin g wrhen someone rmakes him" "Hey, what's this?" "Is this a carnival?" "get out!" "Relax, sister-in-law" "Why give him water?" "Felicitate him!" "Once for coming home" "Also for not having immersed anything else" "YIt again for not turning into an ascitic" " Avali..." "What?" "Remember you have a family?" "Here, push them into the well and be free" "Avali..." "Go away" "You do what you want and then apologize" "Once and for all" "Give up everything" "Become an ascitic or be a householder" "I won't allow you to behave like this till we are around" "You start trading again" "No, if you do that, all your attention will go to that black God (Vitthal) in the temple" "You start farming" "Grow heaps of grain" "Then do whatever worship you want" "Okay, I'll start farming" "Kanha, you look after the business." "Come" " Where?" "To the farm." "Take the plough" "May I come too?" " Nobody is going anywhere" "Sit down." "I can't let you go without eating" "I'm hungry too." "Come on Shevanta, let's make some flatbread" "And your green vegetable" "Then we'll go to the farm" " Me too" "Okay." "All of us will go" "May your figure be always before me" "May your figure be always before me" "My beloved God, husband of mother Rukmini" "Your form is beautiful;" "it feels good to chant your name" "Please give me your love always" "May your figure be always before me" "My mother-like Lord Vithu, give me this one boon" "My mother-like Lord Vithu, give me this one boon" "Occupy my heart always" "My mother-like Lord Vithu, give me this one boon" "Tuka says "I will not ask for more"" "Tuka says "I will not ask for more"" ""Since all my joy lies in your worship"" "May your figure be always before me" "May your figure be always before me" "Listen everyone" "The arrogant Murarrao from the barbaric Adilshahi empire dermolished manyn villages" "Those villages will be rebuilt" "The land will be made fertile" "This is by order of Jijabai Shahji Bhosle" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Oh mind, don't get lost in the illusion of life" "Bad times are here to torture you" "When they happen" "Your parents cannot save you" "Neither king nor minister can help you" "Nor powerful relatives" "Tuka says nobody can save you" "Except Lord Vishnu, the bearer of the divine wheel" "Lord Pandurang..." "So friends..." "Death is the greatest teacher" "But we have forgotten its lesson" "After the famine, we are back to our usual ways" "As if the tragedy never happened" "Why aren't we ready to learn?" "Why are we back to chasing transient things?" "I am truly surprised by these people" "Why don't they consider their own welfare?" "Why don't they consider what's good for them?" "Who will finally come to their aid?" "Oh Lord Vitthal..." "Vitthal" "Oh Lord Vitthal..." "Vitthal" "Oh Lord Vitthal..." "Vitthal" "Oh Lord Vitthal..." "Vitthal" "Tuka gave up money lending and immersed himself in worship" "I thought, "Great, now his pride will take a beating,"" ""My business will prosper"" "But he's back to trading and farming" "And he renovated the temple" "So his business of worship has started" "Those who gather around him for worship go to Kanha for loans" "And those who take money from Kanha pay obeisance to Tuka" "It's a profitable business" " Yes" "If we don't wake up now we'll have to pack up and leave one day soon" " So?" "There's just one solution" " What?" "Mambajibuva" " Who?" "He's a bigwig from Chinchwad" "He needs a bigger area for his work" "It's get him here" "Great!" "His strength of devotion and your power..." "We'll move the ground under the Ambiles' felt" "God, it's good that I am insolvent" "God, it's good that I am insolvent" "And that the famine tortured me" "And that the famine tortured me" "My repentance made me think of you" "My repentance made me think of you" "And this worldly life become nauseating" "And this worldly life become nauseating" "It's good, oh Lord, that my wife harasses me" "It's good, oh Lord, that my wife harasses me" " Tukaram." "What does 'a shrill wife' mean?" "'A shrill wife' means "Thank God, you gave me a quarelsome wife"" "Hence I lost interest in family life and concentrated on your wrorship" "I am quarelsome?" "Why?" "Because I feed you?" "look after you?" "Or give offerings of food to that black God even if my kids are hungry?" "What are you saying?" " Yes, it hurts when I talk" "You don't earn a penny;" "I still run the house" "Take care of the business, and the kids" "That doesn't count?" "And your idle friends!" "They're here early morning to beat cymbals" "They have no work" "All their wives curse them" "And I'm quarelsome?" "You are right Avali" "Damu's wife threw a stick at him" "I don't blame her!" "And Santu's oil mill is closed?" "The bull ran away" "His wife has to work the mill" "Are you teasing me?" "No, you're right" "They have been thrown out" "And they are calling you 'shrill'" "Give them a piece of your mind" "They don't work;" "they get to eat anyway" "All they do is beat on cymbals" "And create noise everywhere" "They are alive but as good as dead" "They have no shame whatsoever" "They don't care for and have forsaken their families" "Their wives suffer; and exist by turning hard like stones" "Avali" "Don't cry" "All of them" "Me too, have become conceited that we are all great devotees" "We do good for the world" "So we neglect our wives and kids We call them names" "Whose side are you on?" "The side of sorrow" "Then why call me 'shrill'?" "Not you!" "They complained about their wives" "So I wrote 'shrill wife'" "You told me of your distress I expressed that too" "Yes." "As if you are never angry with me?" "Maybe..." "I may have expressed my anger" "But the expression in my words is never mine alone" "A poIt's heart is the rrecess for all the sorrows of society" "God himself has no other place to rest his burden" "Greeting." "Come..." " Greeting." "Carefully." "This is Digubhat" " Greetings!" "Joshibuva..." "He looks after this monastery" "Kanakdas, a man from the North established this monastery 100 years ago" "There was a rest house here for travelers" "This is a Shiva temple" "Kanakdas lived here" "In this garbage heap?" "Um... yes" " Yes" "I can't live amid rubbish" "Give me good accommodation" "Is the village wealthy?" "What wealth?" "The famine destroyed everything" "Then why did you call me?" "There are moneylenders like Laxmidas" "You don't worry" "We will manage the funds" "A monastery means festivals" "Religious rites" "Hundreds of people will eat We need money" "We'll get it." "The village folk are religious" "Just being religious isn't enough" "We need finances to restore the monastery" "Yes." "What about water?" "I'll show you" "Here..." "Oh no!" "This sludge must be removed get the villagers on it Clean it up; repair it" "The monastery needs constant funds" "We must have land." "Understood?" "Come on let's go." " Careful." "How is it?" "It's my first attempt ever" "Why have you scribbled this Santu?" "You have just put together some letters look, don't feel bad" "But poetry must come from experience" " What?" "See..." "Vitthal is our respected deity but that doesn't make every verse about him great" "It must be true" "Real, backed by experience" "Use your surroundings when you write" "I have my oil mill, bullock and oil What can I write?" "You will one day" "Your poetry will flourish" "Really?" " Yes." "Come..." "Okay." "May Lord Shiva bless us" "May Lord Shiva bless us" "May good fortune be yours" "This is Tukoba." "A famer and trader" "This is Santu." "An oilman" "Who is there?" "May Lord Shiva bless us" "Tukoba is also a moneylender" " That's great!" "Great!" "I have heard about you." "I wanted to melt you" "I have decided to restore Kanakdas's monastery to its fomer glory" "Rich men like you should participate" "Tukoba has also renovated his temple" "You have a temple?" " Yes" "With 'Keertans' (musical narrations)?" " Yes" "Do people come to listen?" "Yes, they have started to" "It's surprising." "You are lower caste people" "But you build temples and do 'keertans'" "He also writes devotional verse" "Mean?" "You know Sanskrit?" "Enough to get along" " He knows it well" "These days, anyone writes about the holy bLooks" "This is a question of rights" "But also, people should stick to what they know for instan ce, I wrould have liked to discuss prices of rice and cereal with you" "We would have given you the contract for the monastery" "Or why don't you do this?" "The monastery is spacious" "We'll install your Vitthal idol there" "You look after the temple" "You take all the earnings" "And donate a bit to the monastery" "You have misunderstood" "One temple is hereditary" "It's there for devotion, not profit" "Wait." "We haven't finished" "We came for something else" "He writes." "He had some questions on the BhagwadgeIta" "Fine." "Ask..." "No!" "I've got the answers" "Didn't I tell you?" "This is Tuka!" "We have to teach him a lesson" "He's no scholar." "He's a businessman" "He'll lord it over everyone if he goes to the markIt" "And a hypocrite!" "It's the short guys who need to struggle to seem tall" "A cot is a challenge for the bedbug" "It's a long way to climb!" " Brother" " What?" "A wolf bit Laxman, the blacksmith's son" " What?" "Oh God!" "let's go" "What happened Laxman?" "Wolves attacked me" "Theyn have bitten the flesh off your arrrm" "Didn't you go to see a girl to marry?" " Yes" "I left in the morning" "I stopped at the well to eat." "Two wolves came at me" "And then?" " Then..." "I had my axe." "I killed both" " Lord Pandurang... come on" " Carefullyn." "Slowly." "Oh no!" "What happened?" "Wolves bit him" " Where?" "Near the well." " Sit" "He killed them" " Oh God!" " get some tumeric" "Oh no!" " We have applied some medicinal herbs" "Your son is brave." "Don't worry" " But?" "If you had brought their tails you would have won a huge award" "What award?" " Yes" "Wolves are a big problem" "King Shivaji gives an award to those who kill them and get their tails" "Come Subhan..." " Where" "Uncle, there's really an award?" "Yes." "But get well first" "No." "I killed them." "Someone else will claim the award" "Come Subhan..." " Okay" "My boy, you're not well enough to go" "Okay Kanhoba, I'm off on pilgrimage" "I'll melt Lord Vitthal and rIturn" "Yes brother" " Yes, you nod your head and he's scot free" "I don't know what wealth that black God has stored there" "You come with me too" "No need." "I'm fine here!" "If you don't, how will you understand the God's glory?" "It's enough that I know your glory" "So?" "Ready to go on pilgrimage?" "No, not this time" "Why?" "Is everyone okay at home" "Yes." "But Digubhat said that the planIts are not favourable for my daughter" "We have to do a propitiatory rite" "So the planIts move according to Digubhat's wishes?" "And if that was so would his own wife be ailing?" "This is all rubbish" "You'll do the rite and Digubhat's lot will improve" "Take my son along" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Take care of him - orrd Pan durran g does that" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Tuka, just talk to him" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Glory be to Lord Rama and Lord Krishna" "Tuka, just talk to him" "That landowner praised him" "And he's off to work for him" "Not a landowner" " It's King Shivaji" "You mit him?" "Yes." "He spoke to me" "He asked you to work for him?" " Yes" "Then why wait?" "You'll be his soldier" "People sleep in peace because soldiers guard them" "What are you saying Tuka?" "Landowners used to abduct women" "Shivaji broke their limbs" "See what he's doing" "What?" "He said he wants our rule" "Yes." "Our rule is the rule of the people" "He is the people's king and your son will work for him" "Trust in Lord Pandurang and let Laxman go" "Lord Vitthal... his wife, Mother Rakhumai" "Lord Vitthal... his wife, Mother Rakhumai" "Lord Vitthal... his wife, Mother Rakhumai" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "To take Vithoba's name is my practice and my religion" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will pay homage to all the saints" "I will pay homage to all the saints" "Tuka says "Oh God, this is my artless service for you"" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" "Come on." "Tukaram's narration has started" "Mother-in-law, please finish doing the flatbread I'll be back" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Discrimination is an unholy illusion isten all you devotees isten all you devotees" "Carry out the good that you want to" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Do not envy any creature" "Do not envy any creature" "That is the gist of God's worship" "That is the gist of God's worship" "Tuka says the organs of knowledge and action" "Tuka says the organs of knowledge and action" "Belong to one body which experiences joy and sorrow" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Is there a place" "Is there a place" "Where there is instant loss of ego?" "Where there is instant loss of ego?" "It happens in Vitthal's Pandharpur" "It happens in Vitthal's Pandharpur" "One is totally spellbound" "One is totally spellbound" "Brother Savji" " One is totally spellbound where were you for so long?" "We looked for you all over orrd vithoba has rmade us melt" "Now come on home." "Enough of your wandering" "I travelled all over, but what did I find?" "You achieved so much while continuing with your family life" "But I gained nothing despite giving up family" "I knew of your fame." "I heard your narration too" "Every word you spoke spouted springs of devotion in people's hearts" "This is true salvation!" "Should I have searched within myself instead of going away?" "They all touch each other's felt" "They all touch each other's felt" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" " Brother Savji..." "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" " Brother Savji..." "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Tuka says..." "Tuka says..." "Everyone is harping on his name" "This is really shameful" "We must do something!" "It was okay when it was restricted to Dehu" "But now his fame has spread far and wide" "Kulkarni, Malharpant, Mawal all these brahmins are also hanging on his words" "And we're sitting here doling out sweIts as God's blessing" "You think I'm not in demand elsewhere?" "Yesterday, I was invited to Lohagaon." "Just watch" "I'll build armies of my supporters in every town" "I gave birth to myself" "Was born from my own womb" "My existence lies in my own hands" "We blessed saints have transcended birth and death" "What are you blabbering?" "What are you thinking of?" "I want to go to Dehu to melt Tukaram" "Are you crazy?" "That man has cast a spell on you" "Then you come with me" "So you will follow him?" "And I should follow you?" "Then let me go." "Tukaram says" "'False laughterr, false tears'" ""Mine and yours; it's all false"" ""Worldly life is false"" ""Relationships too!" "It's all child's play"" "Please let me go and build a relationship with Lord Vitthal" "A relationship with God or with Tukaram?" "I won't let you go alone" "Not alone." "I'll take Kapila (the cow) with me" "See how important I am?" " Yes" "What are you doing?" "come, sit dowrn here" "You are from Tukoba's Dehu village" "Seeing you is like melting him" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Wonder when I will melt him." "Only Lord Pandurang knows about it." "I wrill come to do a narrrration for you" " Goodbye." "Pan durran g..." "Santu... what?" "Nothing." "Just massaging your back get to the point Sir" "I wrote something." "Will you hear it?" " Yes" "Listen." "I became an oilman" "I learnt to run the oil mill naturally" "This oil mill is extremely intelligent" "It has waves of discrItion" "We will draw this oil (of devotion)" "And break the mass of desire" "Having drawn this oil" "The Saint will sell it in the markIt" "Santu the oilman draws the oil (of devotion)" "It will never run out" "You are blessed Santu, you will become great" "You have a lot of wisdom" "People criticize you for no reason" "Believe me when I tell you this" "You like it?" " Master..." "Master..." " What are you doing?" "Who are you?" "I'm Bahinai." "I've come from Kolhapur to see you" "I have drunk my thirst, eaten my hunger (forgotten everything)" "Master, I want to be your disciple" "Bhagu, get some water and jaggery" "Okay" " You've come from so far" "Rest awhile" "Then we'll talk" "Take it" " No Master." "Tell me, will you induct me?" "She's very stubborn." "Say 'Yes' or she won't even drink a drop of water" "She sings your verses all day" "You are?" " Her unfortunate husband!" "Adyn, becoming a disciple means walking with support" "And if Lord Pandurang wanted everyone to become my disciple why would he have let different flames in every heart?" "My verses may be like momentary lightening" "They may light the way for a moment" "But you must use your inner glow to light up your life" "Kapila, I have got what I wanted" "I listen to Tukaram's narration every night" "And live in this monastery" "The Master says "See the world through the light in your heart"" "But when his 'abhangs' light up everything so clearly why would I use my faint lamp?" "Will people laugh at me?" "But really, It's so wonderful to hear him speak" "Do you think I should try to write?" "See what Mambajibuva, this monastery's head, says" "I heard that you ate at Tukaram's house" "You want to be his disciple" "Is it proper for a brahmin lady like you to bow to a low caste?" "Brahmins and low castes?" "We are pilgrims of Vithoba" "We don't discriminate" "What does Tukya know?" "He can't become a scholar by reading holy bLooks and singing verses" "There are many wise people in the world Be their disciple" "He has agreed to instruct you" "Yes" "I'm looking for common sense;" "not wisdom" "Govind, Parshuram, come here" "What happened?" " Throw their belongings out!" "Go!" "Isten to me" " No!" "You can't stayn here." "I offered a brahmin couple a roof for a few days" "Not for this tomfoolery" "Don't do this..." " Out..." "Please don't do this" "Where will we go?" "Don't do that" " Throw their stuff out." "This cow too" "Listen" " Yes." "Is this Dehu village?" " Yes" "King Shivaji wants to visit the blacksmith" "Where is the king?" " There" "I'll show you" "What do you do?" " Nothing" "Nothing?" "I have a business and some land" "My brother looks after the business HE (God) tills the farm" "And you tend to animals?" " Someone has to do it" "I hear there's a big saint called Tukaram" "A saint?" " Isn't he one?" "In these troubled times, there's a saint in every home" "Really?" " Yes." "His wife criticizes him;" "his children scream at him" "The learned priests oppose him" " I see" "Has anyone see him worship properly?" "Has he ever done religious rites?" "Or propitiated the planIts?" "No!" "He only advises people to be good Is that enough?" "But that is a necessity" "Some wise men get close to God" "Some even hug him like a child" "But Tukaram's knowledge is sparse and his pride boundless" "I tell you He is unduly popular" "Queues of people" "He has no time to melt himself!" "How will he melt God?" "Axman told me that Tukaram is so sirmple; it's tough to rrecognizozoe him" "Your Majesty..." "Tukoba..." " What?" "Who else would be so candid about himself?" "Sorry Master" " It's okay." "How is Laxman?" "God tLook him away" "Pandurang!" "He put his life in danger to save me" "We couldn't bring his body" "The King did all the rites" "We have the ashes" "Hanmya..." "Tuka... what?" "look who's here" "The person Laxman worshipped." "King Shivaji!" "Great!" " It's okay." "I am honoured, your majesty" "My Laxman is always full of praise for you" "Today his majesty is here to praise Laxman" "Laxman!" "Laxman...!" "Laxman...!" "Axman...!" "Your discourses strengthened our efforts" "My father tried to establish an empire too" "But that bore no fruit" "Because slavery was in the people's mindsIt" "But you saint-poIts gave them self-respect" "So many young men like Laxman voluntered to fight these intruders" "It's big of you to say that!" "My mother wishes to honour you and reward you in court" "You must come" "Oh king, I would never turn down this affectionate invitation" "But I feel that my task is different" "To create peace in people's minds through Lord Vitthal's worship" "To travel all over the valleys and dales of the Sahyadri mountains" "To find brave men like Laxman" "To send them to you; that is my job" "To give them strength to fight injustice" "To protect your citizens, is your job" "It's best that we work in our own areas" "You said that my contribution strengthens your task" "That is my reward" "Your gift to me!" "What happened?" "My sister's getting married." "Digubhat didn't show up" "The guests were getting delayed so we did the wedding without a priest." "They punished me" "Mambaji, what is this?" "Move out of my way" "Why?" "If someone else chants the hymns, is the wedding invalid?" "Or are those hymns less effective?" "This is a matter of religion" "Religion or business?" "He wanted remuneration from both sides" "So what?" "It's our right to perform marriage rites" "Why?" "Because you are God's manager?" "Yes!" "Religion is God's administration and so, as you say, we are His managers" "So you blacken the face of our poor Damu?" "No other alternative" " At least fear that God might be watching" "These simple, ignorant people turn a stone into God" "And you decide that God knows nothing an d turrn H irm into a stone!" "Tuka!" "Damu, get down!" "Don't you dare" "Stop... you'll regrIt it if you touch Tukaram" "Yes..." "Yes..." " Damu, get down" "You haven't committed any crime" "Tuka, I have two more daughters" "Don't worry." "If these priests continue in this manner we'll marry off your girls without them!" "Tukya, let's just see for how long these people stand by you" "Oh Vitthal, what's all this?" "What religion in this that bends people?" "Religion should teach them to stand" "You endorse such a religion?" "One that makes people numb and powerless?" "No?" "Then why are you silent?" "You actually watch this harassment in the name of religion?" "What do I say to you?" "Now let people praise you as much as they wish for me, God is dead..." "I don't care what others think!" "It your speech sayn that God exists" "But experience in your mind that he is formless" "Tuka...!" "We servants of Lord Vishnu are softer than wax" "But also hard enough to break the weapon of the king of Gods" "We will give even our loincloths to the virtuous" "Bur we will smack the wicked on the head with a stick" "Do these fellows think we servants of Lord Vishnu are weaklings?" "I was trying to persuade them, hoping that they'd change" "But they are taking advantage and stinging these simple folk" "They have to be taught a lesson for the guinea-worm on the foot" "Some camphor was applied" "Actually, it needed something stronger" "Evil people deserve tit for tat" "When the scorpion climbs on the holy idol" "It's not because it likes to worship" "It must be hit with a shoe" "All evil deserves tit for tat" "That Tukya..." "He calls saints donkeys an d scorrpions ...an d snakes" "He has to be taught a lesson!" "They call themselves saints?" "Some saints belonging to our times" "Smoke pipes of tobacco" "They forego religious rituals" "They indulge in intoxicating substances" "Intoxicating drugs are their habit" "And they are used to drinking liquor" "Tuka says "They are all hypocrites"" ""They have no real connection with God!"" "This Tukya..." "He will utterly ruin our religion" "He will destroy it" "Avali, you came?" " Yes" "You should have sent Kanha, or the kids" "That's okay" "Your legs were hurting the other day" "You climbed all this way..." " That's okay" "Have I been here many days?" "No." "Just a couple" "People must have gathered asking where I am" "No." "No one did" "You came to get me?" "No, not at all" "I've brought flatbread." "And bed sheIts" "We can stay for a few more days!" " Really?" "Of course" "Just rinse out your mouth." "And eat something" "Tell me" " What?" "Whatever happens happens because it's your black God's wish?" "Without doubt!" "So all our losses, bankruptcy were his wish?" " Yes" "He ruined our business, tLook away our family members..." "Then why do you still worship him?" "You tell me Avali..." "You have lost everything with me" "Then why do you still live with me?" "I have to" "My life is tied to yours" "That's what I realized too" "My life is tied to HIS!" "So I have to walk with him" "What's the matter?" "It's a first for you to tell me to stay here, not return home" "You eat first" "What?" " Fine" "Yesterday Mambaji came over" "To ask for you" "Brother-in-law said that he has brought the priest Rameshwar" "They are planning some mischief" "If they don't find you for a couple of days, they'll go back" "Where are you off to?" "I have to go Avali" "I have to do a narration tonight" "They'll blacken your face." "Parade you on a donkey" "I became my own judge" "I did not blindly follow the majority" "Tradition doesn't have to be obeyed blindly" "Tradition is like the river that carries... sticks, stones and garbage along with fertile soil" "SomItimes, we need to ask our cultivated minds what is good or bad" "Hey, wait!" "Come" " Enough." "Wait...!" "Wait" "He is..." "I see!" "So you will decide the suitabilety of tradition" "Yes!" "Tuka says" "We consider it our job" "To teach morals to everyone" "You will preach morals to the world" "Why?" "Are all we priests dead?" "Please sit Sir." "We will talk after my exposition" "Fine." "Now we have to listen to your commentary" "It has come to this!" "You were preaching to simple, illeterate people in your shrine at home" "We let you do it And now you say..." "We saints grasp the essence of our scriptures" "Those who merely recite them are just beasts of burden" "You dare tell us this!" "Great!" "You seem to know many of Tukaram's verses" "Shut up!" "The real surprise is that the devotional path easily grasped by these illeterate people, is beyond you" "Enough!" "I have an order from the religious court" "Your explanations are confusing people about tradition itself" "You have to appear before the religious court to provide the answers" "quilt..." "The religious court is in session" "Rameshwarbhat and Mambaji have complained against you" "Tukoba, son of Bolhoba Ambile, has crossed the ordained boundaries of the caste system and committed the grave crime of challenging it" "Though he is of the lowest caste his writings interprIt the scriptures" "Though a low caste trader he has brahmin (upper caste) disciples who also touch his felt" "He is accused of this as well." "These are serious accusations registered in the civil court more than once" "If these are proved, Tukoba Ambile will be sentenced to leave his home, country or receive corporal punishment" "Before announcing the sentence, he is given a chance to defend himself" "Officers of the religious court and all you good people" "I will speak but please do not think this is an attempt to get my punishment reduced" "To begin with I don't know if the accusations are of a criminal nature" "It is true that my verses interprIt the Hindu scriptures" "But I did not know that I needed permission to do that" "When a newborn sucks at his mother's breasts he needs no sanction from any officer" "I partLook of the nectar of experience From the scrripturres as innocentlyn and then shared it as God's blessings" "I do not feel that is a sin lf, as the holy texts say we are all created from the same Divine Spirit and will mingle with it after death" "Then why this discrimination?" "We all belong to the same letter There should be no discrimination" "Saint Kabir says that if God wanted brahmins to be different he would have given them a sacred thread and a shaven head at birth" "And if he wished Muslims to be different they would have been born circumcised" "Don't mention Kabir;" "he had no caste or religion" "He was a bastard who grew up on the streIts" "Should I quote (the saint-poIt) Dnyanadev?" "No, he was an ascitic's child" "That's strange!" "You brahmins agreed not to expel nynanadev an d his sibling gs From society" "In rIturn, you made their parents drown themselves" "And you still label him 'an ascitic's child'" "What about the saint Eknath from Paithan?" " No" "You don't want the scriptures, pantheism the tradition of the pilgrimage to Vitthal" "So what do you want?" "You say that we have no right to light up the darkness!" "Then why don't you light it up?" "You don't tell us what to do" "Everyone has the right to knowledge" "All four castes, those even lower" "Children, men, women, even prostitutes" " Prostitutes too?" "Yes, they too!" "We all have a right to celebrate God's name; to go close to him" "And making brahmins your disciples, having them touch your felt?" "Amongst the pilgrim community, we all touch each other's felt" "Dnyanadev says that is an obeisance to the divine element in each of us" "And I have never made anyone a disciple" "Disciples, establishing monasteries, business-minded exploitation that's the job of people like Mambaji" " Tukoba..." "You may blabber all you want" "But you have sinned according to the religious texts" "Are you aware of the punishment for this crime?" "You must be knowing that the holy texts term even brahmins who lend money, serve and farm as low caste?" "These same brahmins who consider untouchables impure go to their houses to collect their loans" "What do you call that?" "This law is only for us?" "You are talking more than you need to" "The truth is secure within me There is no confusion whatsoever" "I give sharp answers" "In order to improve myself in my future journey!" "You have insulted the Hindu law code" "There is a law that transcends it" "Divine justice!" "There is a court that supersedes this one!" "You are rejecting it!" "We cannot neglect your crime" "This religious court ordains ...that you cannot write verse anymore" "All your existing notebLooks of poetry will have to be immersed" "If not, all your moveable and immoveable assIts will be confiscated" "You will be evicted..." "And expelled from the community!" "He will learn a lesson now." "Wait... wait" "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "You immersed your Gaatha (BLook of Abhangs)" "Why?" "Why?" "Why should all of you be expelled due to me?" "Why should the children suffer?" "And who knows?" "Perhaps my Gaatha has done what it could!" "But you didn't feel like asking me?" "You fought with me for these verses" "I spent sleepless nights;" "I waited for you to come home" "You made us insolvent;" "You let the kids go hungry" "And now you calmly immerse them and say their work is over?" "Even when I quareled, I continued to take care of these Abhangs" "When it rained, even before I covered the kids I made sure that their pages wouldn't get wit..." "As per the orders of the religious seat Tukaram did immerse his hymns." "But as he had lost everything he sat at the banks of river Indrayani for 13 days without eating or drinking." "Gradually everyone came to know about it." "And all the people started going to Dehu." ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" "Words are the riches in our homes" "Words are the riches in our houses" "Our aim is to preserve that knowledge" "Words are the instruments of our daily lives" "We will also distribute them to others" "Tuka says "The Word is God"" ""We should honour and worship it"" "The person who treats everyone tomented or downtrodden, as his own" "He is a true saint" "One can perceive that God resides in him" "Oh God, give me childhood" "Because the ant is tiny and gets to eat suga" "The elephant, though it is great, gets no sugar" "It is pricked with the sharp goad" "This proves that those who are great" "Have to bear the most agony" "Those who are paid to lament" "Have neither tears nor affection" "What is the use of such devotion" "That is put on just for show?" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Chant orrd vitthal's name an d see him always" "Make him your beloved" "This longing makes your mind greedy" "It refuses to rIturn to worldly matters" "Chant orrd vitthal's name an d see him always" "Chant Lord vitthal's name an d see him always" "Chant Lord vitthal's name an d see him always" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "The foundation of life" "The strength to live" "The foundation of life" "The strength to live" "The key to thought" "Tukaram!" "The foundation of life" "The strength to live" "The foundation of life" "Honesty of words" "A garden of knowledge" "Honesty of words" "A garden of knowledge" "The page of devotional verse" "Tukaram!" "The foundation of life" "The strength to live" "The foundation of life" "He rises again" "He spreads deep within us" "He rises again" "He spreads deep within us" "There is always more to him" "TUKARAM!" "There is always more to him" "TUKARAM!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "Oh Lord Vitthal...!" "How can these words, carved in each heart, be erased?" "These verses may have been immersed" "But today, in an extraordinary way they have become immortal" "This Gaatha transcends the boundaries of state, country, time and language" "And has been overflowing with wisdom for the last 400 years" "It lights the flame of truth in the hearts of millions of pilgrims" "It explains the essence of life through..." "That is why Saint Tukaram's Gaatha continues to float" "Lord Vitthal... his wife, Mother Rakhumai" "Lord Vitthal... his wife, Mother Rakhumai" "Lord Vitthal... his wife, Mother Rakhumai" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "To take Vithoba's name is my practice and my religion" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will pay homage to all the saints" "I will pay homage to all the saints" "Tuka says "Oh God, this is my artless service for you"" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" "I will be a mendicant;" "A pilgrim to Pandharpur (Vithoba's abode)" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" ""Glory to Lord Rama and Krishna"" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Discrimination is an unholy illusion" "Listen all you devotees" "Listen all you devotees" "Carry out the good that you want to" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Devotees of Lord Vishnu see the world full of him" "Is there a place" "Is there a place" "Where there is instant loss of ego?" "Where there is instant loss of ego?" "It happens in Vitthal's Pandharpur" "It happens in Vitthal's Pandharpur" "One is totally spellbound" "One is totally spellbound" "One is totally spellbound" "Tuka says "Have you seen such harmony" "Tuka says "Have you seen such harmony of worship anywhere else?"" "Of worship anywhere else?"" "No other holy place is a match for Pandharpur" "No other holy place is a match for Pandharpur" "Nobody here has any ego" "Nobody here has any ego" "They all touch each other's felt" "They all touch each other's felt" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!" "Oh Lord Pandurang...!"