"There is nothing now for us other than meditation" "Panduranga is in my heart and my soul, waking and sleeping" "He pervades my senses" "He pervades my being" "He is no more outside of me" "Panduranga is my consciousness" "Tuka says I know His loved image" "Standing still and moving on the same brick" "It is me who composed this" "We composed this song" "Tuka simply puts his name to it" "And says the composition is his" "He becomes a saint for it" "The rogue!" "Tuka does the same with all his devotional songs" "Salomalo composes them" "Tuka put his name to them" "So could I" "'God stands straight and firm' says Bambya" "The man's an out-and-out cheat but pretends to be a saint" "Beads around his neck, 'tanpura' under his arm..." "That doesn't make a saint!" "Such men..." "Tuka says" " Salomalo says " "See what happens..." "Even I fell into the trap!" "But the original goes like this" "Salo says such men should be beaten with shoes" "A handful of water" "Washes my buffalo clean" "Kashi!" "Get up and finish your work" "I'm fed up" "Working for that buffalo" "She doesn't give a drop of milk" "Bitch!" "My father gave her to me and so you have at least this much" "Just because she's gone dry these last few years" "My beautiful one!" "She may not give milk but she gives us dung, doesn't she?" "You can drink milk, Ma" "You can't eat dung, can you?" "Get lost!" "Mangalai, Goddess of my mother's home" "Give plenty of milk to my beautiful one, my buffalo" "I've had my bellyful" "I'm fed up." "How much can I do?" "Do I look after the boy or the buffalo?" "This madcap husband of mine" "'Panduranga is my mind...'" "Pandurang can go to hell!" "Come in this minute" "Here, the child is ill for a month" "Is he anywhere in your mind?" "Take this child" "Careful." "The child is ill" "What else am I shouting about?" "Will you get some medicine?" "What better doctor than Panduranga?" "What better medicine than His Name?" "Say Panduranga and you'll feel better" "I'll pull your tongue out if you take that name" "One madman in the house is enough" "Look, how he howls like an animal" "Poor one." "What else can he do?" "You neither leave him with me nor do you look after him" "That dried-up buffalo takes all your time" "Don't drag her into this" "Because she comes from your mother's home?" "You're damned right." "Anything to say?" "If a grinding stone from my mother's house split my head..." "I would not bleed, understand?" "My buffalo will give you milk one day" "What has your Black face done for us?" "Ruined my home" "Not a scrap to eat" "Children ill" "He's even dried up buffalo" "Don't curse Panduranga" "I'll do worse." "I'll dump this child before Him" "I'll beat Him awake and ask Him" "Blackface, You've ruined my home" "You see this?" "His father sings Your praises day and night" "Will You cure him?" "Or else" "Are you a woman or a monster?" "I'm human being." "But who are you to ask me?" "Your Blackface..." "Ma, look." "I'm well" "So you are." "Oh my pet" "This is my Mangalai's doing" "Mangalai, protect my child" "Tuka, do you think God is a roadside stone?" "That shrew of yours desecrated Him today" "Aren't you ashamed?" "Oh God." "What a sinner I am" "Desecration is a great sin" "I'll accept any punishment you give me" "There's only one!" "You'll not step into this temple again" "I can't enter the temple?" "Panduranga is my life" "And to desecrate Him is your prayer" "Get out" "Please have mercy on me" "Give me any other punishment" "But don't keep me away from Him" "People would really think that you're great devotee" "If you ever come here again I will break your leg" "Salo says such men should be beaten with shoes" "Panduranga" "No punishment will ever absolve me of this sin" "Your love is all forgiving" "How did You forsake me?" "But I can't forsake You" "Let me fill my eyes with Your image" "I'll not see You again" "The thought of You is my life" "Tuka is worthless" "Even urchins and harlots abuse me" "I crave to be alone" "Only then will all ties snap" "Pandurang." "My mother!" "Sundara, I am happy today" "Ask for anything and it's yours" "What happened?" "Something that has never happened before" "I have accomplished the impossible" "Killed a dangerous animal" "What gibberish is this?" "What animal?" "That Tuka!" "I have driven him out." "Really showed him up" "Now, I will be the preacher and saint around here" "They'll all touch my feet" "So, sing your nicest song" "Shell I sing about God?" "About God?" "Saints like songs about God" "I am no saint when here" "I want a juicy love song" "Youth in its prime is going to waste" "Who else but you can enliven this body?" "Why waste your love" "Father!" "Why are you here?" "I guessed where you'd be" "But why come at all?" "Mother!" "Is she here too?" "No, she wants you" "Stay here" "I'll come tomorrow" "Ass!" "Can't babble yet and wants to chew betel-leaves" " Has he come?" " No" "I've scouted whole village." "I can't find father anywhere" " Looked in Blackface's Temple?" " Yes, I did" " In the square?" " Yes" "Must be on the hill then" "Kashi, clean it up" "Listen, children" "You have your meal." "Don't wait for him" "After you finish I'll take food to him" "My poor little ones" "Won't you eat, Ma?" "You must." "You've not eaten a morsel since yesterday" "You must be very hungry" "My own darlings." "Mangalai, keep them safe" "My dears, I would not be able to eat until he has eaten" "See how much Ma loves him" "He does not love me any less" "He's never happy when I am not around" "Is that why you fight with him every day?" "Rascal!" "Eyes on your plates now" "I will go, then" "Look after the house." "Don't quarrel" "The flowers and trees are my dear companions" "The birds sing melodiously" "In solitude I seek bliss" "It is pure joy, unqualified" "The sky is the shelter, the earth the bed" "We go where our feet carry us" "My body is but a blanket and pitcher" "The breeze marks the time for me" "Telling of God's deeds is food without limit" "In it all tastes about" "Says Tuka, my dialogue is with myself" "And all argument too" "What's the matter?" "A thorn?" "Wait" "That's no way to remove it" "Quick!" "That fool of mine..." "Tuka?" "He's starving since morning" "He must be faint with hunger" "Easy now" "Brute!" "What a big thorn!" "Your name, grandpa?" "Pandurang" "What?" "That Name again?" "Why not say so before." "I'd have kept the thorn then" "What are you doing with your eyes closed?" "Your dear ones are hoarse calling out to you" "You sit here calling out to someone else" "What of your stomach?" "Have you gone deaf?" "Open your eyes" "Have you gone deaf?" "Mangalai, he must be starved!" "Here, take this" "Avala, how did you get here?" "On foot." "Climbed up the hill" "But how did you know that I was here?" "A man wouldn't know." "It has to be a woman like me" "Come on, eat now" "This is true devotion" "Your devotion brought you to me" "I hope mine will lead me to Panduranga" "Him!" "I'll burn Him alive" "Enough." "You look so pale" "Come, eat now" "Avala, have the kids eaten?" "They were waiting for you" "Then I told them to eat" "What little gems they are" "Avala, you too eat with me" "No, you eat." "I've eaten" "That's impossible." "Come on" "No." "Let it be" "Go on." "I'm not a baby to be fed" "There are people watching" "How sweet this bread tastes" "Did I make it?" "How lucky!" "Panduranga's blessed me with such a wife" "Him!" "It was my father who blessed you with me" "Don't mention that Blackface before me" "Avala, do you really not love my Vitthala (Panduranga)?" "You might think your God is great" "But mine is still greater" "Greater than Vitthala?" " Mangalai?" " No" "Then what's your God's name?" "His name?" "Be quiet and eat" "What a silly question!" "My God is eating with me" "Does your God ever come and eat with you?" "He only knows how to ruin people's homes" "He's made of stone" "What does He know of flesh-and-blood people" "It's really bad for the kids" "They must have at least rags to wear" "And stale bread to put in their stomachs" "But you can't get milk out of a stone" "Better to look after the kids than to run after Him!" "Poor starved kids Oh Panduranga" "What can He tell you?" "He's not going to give you flour for bread" "There isn't a grain in the house past two days" "A mongrel is better off than my kids" "At least it can feed himself on the streets" "My kids starve" "And you go after Pandurang" "Is that how you go to heaven?" "And if you do, what use is it?" "You are so right" "Avala, you have made me see the light" "Turning my back on my kids will get me nowhere" "Now you're talking like a man" "My Mangalai, don't let him change his mind" "Avala, your practical philosophy rises above all other" "One must seek God in this world" "It is not the world that one needs to deny" "But the desires ranging within that have to be conquered" "The family is man's first loyalty" "I don't understand all these big words" "Children too are God" "Nobody gains anything out of torturing them" "Come, Avala" "Dear Goddess Mangalai, you have heard my prayer" "Make money by honest dealings" "Yet remain detached" "This is the way to progress" "Both in this world and other" "Says Tuka, this is the truth of the four stages of man" "This is the essence of all detachment" "Kashi, when will Ma return?" "In a little while" "You want some?" "Let's rag him" "Want some sugarcane?" "Why are you beating him?" "Rascals!" "Don't cry." "I'll give you some." "Are you hurt?" "Go, choke on it" "Mahadeo, don't cry." "We'll Dad to get us lots of sugarcane" "What a hope!" "You won't get even dry grass that the buffaloes eat" "Clear out, will you?" "Devils!" "Father, we want sugarcane" "All the village kids rag us" "Yes, my children." "I'll get you some" "Right now!" "I will." "I will, my child" "It's coming, it's coming" "Take this down" "All sweetness lies in the Name of Rama" "Anger anger against Hari is pain..." "A lifetime of pain" "Milk, rice and butter" "What are you gaping at?" "Note it down" "Without inspiration what does one do?" "Take it down" "Read on" "I mean, read what's before your mind's eye" "Milk, rice, butter and sweets" "Don't satisfy the soul's hunger" "A lifetime of eating" "Sour and sweet..." "Sweet and sour, leads to repentance" "Says Tuka, the nectar of Rama's Name" "Kills desire for other tastes" "What have you written?" "Haven't you written 'Tuka says'?" "No, only what I should..." "What?" "Salo says..." "Inspiration lies in shreds" "It's coming, it's coming" "What?" "Inspiration!" "Take this down" "Hymns to Ram..." "Says Dholo" "That's it" "A chip off the old block" "That's it" "Father, there's Tuka" "Back again" "Where are you off to, you hoax?" "Looking for work" "Sir, I'll be grateful if you could give me some" "Did you hear that, Dnyanoba?" "Tukaram is looking for work!" "He's the kind to cart salt to the coast." "Who'll give him work?" "There's one work you're fit for" "Don't you want to know what?" "Begging" "That keeps the family well" "Sell what remains." "Get rich" "And..." "Feel free to use God's Name for begging" "Wait, let me be the first to do charity" "Begging?" "No" "Never take the begging bowl" "It is a shameful life" "Such a man is forsaken forsaken forever by God" "Tuka, I'll give you some work" "It won't interfere with your devotion" "I'd be truly grateful" "I'm going to Alandi" "Look after my farm" "And I'll take care of you" "Dnyanoba, you're being generous at my expense" "Once he starts singing" "He won't notice if cattle trample the field" "But remember, I'll not let go of my share" "Don't worry." "You'll get your share." "Come, Tuka" "This is my field" "Look after it well" "Fine." "You may go now" "Pandurang will bless you" "I'll be back soon" "May Your image always stay before my eyes" "Oh!" "the husband of Rakhumai" "Sweet is Thy face, Sweet is Thy name" "Fills me with love at all times" "My Pandurang grant me this boon..." "That You'll remain in my heart" "Says Tuka, I ask for nothing else" "All joy lies at Your feet" "People have gone crazy over him" "When he starts singing they gather around him" "What fools!" "Even at the fields!" "Either have him leave the village or confine him to the hills" "People follow him everywhere" "Tuka, you've looked after my field well" "Come down" "Take this for today's work" "Don't give me grain" "Give me some sugarcane for children" "Certainly." "Take the grain as well" "But do come tomorrow" "Always think of right and wrong" "And chant God's Name" "Give me some, please" "Take it, child" "Take it, child" "Thinking of God sees you through the worst troubles of life" "Give me some as well" "Remember and chant God's Name" "Do so day and night" "Says Tuka, many have found salvation" "Through singing God's Name" "Kashi, sugarcane!" "Goddess Mangalai, how kind you are" "What a mess you're making" "Only the sugarcane is causing the mess here?" "I get the hint" "Just see how I clean up the house tomorrow" "Dnyanoba must learn not to hobnob with the wrong typers" "He gave Tuka work to spite me" "Find such cattle as will raze the field in one go" "Don't worry about that, master." "Dnyanoba has been a thorn in our side too" "We'll teach him a lesson" "Let's see what Tuka can do" "By the grace of Mangalai, he is working at last" "No more obligations now" "Hurry up, children" "The house must look like a mirror before he returns" "He won't know it's his house." "It began with a seed" "The seed sprouted." "And the plant grew" "In the womb of the seed are a million trees" "And flowers and fruits" "You pervade the world in Your many forms" "But your essential form is Brahma (But You are the Supreme Absolute Truth)" "Open your eyes, look around" "What are you sitting here for?" "Why are you so angry, Dnyanoba?" "With half the field eaten up?" "There has not been such a crop in years" "Hadn't I warned you, Dnyanoba?" "Now look what's happened" "But I'm not letting go of my share" "You think I'll spare him?" "I'm not a simpleton" "What can you take from him?" "All his possessions together won't buy a meal" "But he has a house" "I'll get the village chief to draw up a mortgage deed" "Like a sky without clouds" "Clean as the river Ganga" "I have made my house, my house!" "Tuka, whether the house stays with you or not depends upon your destiny" "If the field is as good as every year ...then the house stays with you" "Otherwise you must sell it to compensate" "That's what the deed says" "Isn't that so?" "You accept this?" "I accept." "It is my fault." "Then sign here" "Come, Salomalo, come" "You've come at the right moment" "We want a witness" "Tuka, you decided to work" "You lost your home and hearth" "The only home for you now is under some tree" "Father is here" "Mahadeo, Kashi, you're not to say a word" "Seeing the house he will say, 'What a fine woman you are'" "'How clean the house looks'" "Hush, hide here" "Has he brought any grain?" "Didn't Dnyanoba give any grain?" "Maybe he'll give it all together" "But have you seen our house?" "Isn't it shining?" "Our house?" "It looks like someone else's?" "It belongs to Panduranga now" "He who gave it is taking it away" "I don't understand" "When I was minding the field some cattle ruined the crop" "I've signed away the house in compensation" "I must pay for my mistake" "The only shelter the children had a right to" "What do we do now?" "His will prevails" "He will take care of them" "Everything is His will" "What's this?" "Look what a huge heap it is!" "Get the measures" "The heap remains the same whatever you take from it!" "How many measures?" "Ten times the usual crop and still some left" "Have you measured correctly?" "See for yourself" "You're very lucky" "Mother Earth has blessed you with a tenfold yield" "Why are you silent now?" "I've been unjust" "Cattle destroyed the crop but I abused Tuka" "I made him mortgage his house" "I've sinned against God" "I'll keep only my usual share" "The rest belongs to Tuka." "I'll send it to him" "Look, the field's mine" "You're only the tenant" "Who are you to give away grain to that loafer?" "You'll get the share that is yours" "I can do what I like with the rest" "Let's load the grain and go." "You're talking very big" "Let me see you take even a grain to Tuka's house" "You don't own the world, do you?" "You have a right only on your share" "Had you spared Tuka we would have granted you more" "Seems as if those who let loose the cattle did Tuka a favor" "Implying that we let the cattle loose?" "I'll show you" "Dnyanoba?" "Have you come to throw us out?" "Tuka's piety has brought me a bumper crop" "Here it is" "All this is ours!" "Yes" "Really?" "Dear, dear Mangalai" "Kashi, Mahadeo, come." "Unload the grain" "See, so many carts" "Patil, see how much grain they have brought for Tukaram" "What?" "For Tukaram?" "Kashi, give me a grain-basket" "I'll grind it into flour" "There is no flour in the house" "Father, see how many carts they have brought" "What's this, Dnyanoba?" "I've sinned against you." "Forgive me" "All the grain that I've got through your piety is yours" "That cannot be" "What grows in your field is yours" "Please take it back" "I can't do that" "Then give it away to hungry beggars" "Please don't keep it here." "It is not mine" "It is yours." "I've no right to give it away" "The cock crows" "The world wakes up" "My destiny has suddenly grown bright" "Give food freely to the hungry" "But when giving alms consider its worth when the need arises" "This is true religion" "Else give to those beings" "Who are worthy recipients" "God's name is sacred food" "Take freely of it... and you will be immortal" "Speak Vitthala See Vitthala" "Act Vitthala with all your heart" "Scoundrels!" "Clear out!" "Grown fat like pigs on unearned food" "Think this is your father's granary?" "You come back and I'll break your legs" "No other house for begging?" "Now neither he nor you can have it" "Cry your eyes out for them" "Give away all the grain and flour!" "What will the kids eat?" "Your bones or mine?" "She rages like the furies, won't let go" "Like the furies, am I?" "Naturally, since I'm there to stuff your gorge" "Don't be so proud" "Don't be so greedy" "Avala, Pandurang gives to each according to his merit" "Pandurang does this, He does that!" "And I'm greedy, am I?" "Mother Mangalai, for what sins did you bind me to this fool?" "If you're so well off I don't want any part of it" "You, your merit, your Blackface and your kids." "Do what you like" "I'm not staying here a moment longer" "She'll never leave you" "She's annoyed with me." "She'll be back soon" "Patil stopped me otherwise I'd have taught Tuka a lesson" "Have you gone mad?" "What else?" "We had a good crop because the rains were good" "And Tuka gets the credit" "He pretends to be detached and he's hailed as a saint" "He gives alms to few and he becomes a philanthropist" "These rumours spread like a forest-fire" "People are such fools" "Not one of them can see through him" "It's really too much" "You men are all like that" "And you women?" "You're the bait for such pretenders" "Is that so?" "Shall I show you how smart we are?" "Shell I show him up?" "Even the sage Vishvamitra went wagging his tail to a woman" "Tuka, after all, is a nobody" "Don't make empty boasts" "It's no boast." "It's a challenge" "You want to see how your Tuka falls for me?" "Sit here beside me" "You are beautiful" "Your face like the Moon" "Your skin like cream" "To see this face" "Is to lose my sense" "A dog?" "Why Vishvamitra will be a rag under your feet" "Mind, Tuka is a cunning man" "It's the cunning ones who fall into our traps" "All my desires have vanished without a trace" "Brahma runs through my veins" "I cannot control my own tongue" "I cannot stop chanting His Name" "Tuka says..." "As river becomes ocean" "My spirit has merged with His Name" "I think day and night of the Lord Krishna" "My heart can't bear this separation" "Radha has yielded utterly to His charms" "Why do You torture her so, O Lord" "Let Her hear the sweet sound of Your flute" "Make Her worthy of Your love" "How beautiful!" "Who would not be entranced" "Such a sweet voice issuing from this lovely throat" "You seem to like my singing." "Do you like me?" "You are beautiful" "Yours is such a pure beauty." "It would charm anybody" "Do you really like me so much?" "How fascinating these castanets are" "Why move away?" "Don't you like me?" "How can that be?" "Panduranga Himself would sway to the sound of your voice that reaches to heaven (Vaikuntha)" "I am charmed" "You are like the goddess Rakhumai Herself" "I bow to you in obeisance" "Lord, what can I do with this fool" "People will stone you if you fall at her feet" "How dare you come here, you whore?" "Is she really a whore?" "Then it is very good" "Yes, very good indeed!" "Are you drunk or something?" "Do you want to be thrown out ceremoniously" "Don't you dare step in here again." "Get out" "You mustn't ill-treat people like that" "You've made a mistake, lady" "We devotees of Vishnu never get involved in such things" "But I'm deeply sorry to see you fall so low" "Your youth and beauty will last only a short time" "Don't burn it up for a moment's pleasure" "If you spent your life singing in praise of God you would gain much" "We help ourselves, we ruin ourselves" "Only we can save ourselves" "May Pandurang give you good sense." "Farewell, lady" "Forgive me, sir" "I come to you because I was challenged" "But your words have changed my heart" "I'll never leave your feet now" "Then I'll have to sweep you out with a broom" "You have abandoned decency." "We haven't" "Do what you like." "Beat me." "But I won't go away" "Marvelous!" "Yes, it is marvelous" "You are fortunate to have a husband like this" "Then why don't you marry him?" "And find out what it's like to be fortunate!" "What are you waiting for?" "She's come your way." "Marry her" "You're like a mother to me" "You can treat me like a servant" "I'll do any work for you" "But I won't go away from these feet" "You'd better, this minute" "You uplift the fallen ones" "Let me also enjoy Your grace" "I must get the highest religious authority to teach Tuka a lesson" "Tuka says he is a saint" "Who bears the world's assaults" "Tuka says, full of grace is your countenance" "When the Lord is in your heart and soul" "Tuka says, each man has his work" "None other can do it" "He who says in Brahma" "Knows not the essence of devotion" "Says Tuka, not for a moment" "Do I wish to see such a man" "I welcome the learned scholar, Rameshvar Shastri" "On behalf of Dehu village" "Tuka seems to have the village in his grip" "As I came, I heard everybody singing his songs" "I had informed you of this" "What's the use?" "I blame you for letting things get out of hand" "Blame me?" "You and all Brahmins of Dehu" "Allowing him to carry on with his tricks" "An example of the gullibility of the common man" "I have one request to make to this illustrious scholar" "Punishment be given with due consideration" "Gold never mixed with lead" "Says Salo, o lord of religion." "Whose fault is it, show us" "That is very good, Salomalo, you have an eloquent tongue" "His tongue?" "Yes, it's flowery" "I didn't know you were such an excellent poet" "It fills me with gratitude to hear your praise" "Since you have brought up the subject, let me tell you" "Tuka picks up my compositions, juggles the words around" "And sings them down the village streets as his own" "No wonder there is such feeling for words in his songs" "I was listening as I came" "I was really struck by the chaste language" "The impeccable construction and the grace of his songs" "But in his compositions he turns the Vedas upside down" "This is a blunt insult to our scriptures" "Yet the stupid people praise him" "It is the Dehu Brahmins who have spoilt him" "They call him a saint and prostrate themselves before him" "Do they do that?" "And the lowcaste allows it?" "Wonderful!" "So the rot has really set in" "I have thought of the best solution" "Drive him out of Dehu" "He's done nothing to deserve that" "Dehu is proud to have him" "Don't meddle in religious matters" "Tell Tukaram that Rameshvar Shastri has come to judge him" "Ask him to come here immediately" "Don't come near" "I will not have blasphemous people like you near me" "Blasphemous?" "I?" "Yes, and you've made the people blaspheme" "Have I?" "If that is true I will take any punishment" "Lord, I think you're mistaken" "Mistaken?" "In order to promote the philosophy of devotion" "You have belittled Vedic ritual" "Aren't you ashamed of talking this way" "You have made a cult out of the chanting of God's Name." "Sinner!" "But there are two ways to reach God" "One is rocky, the other smooth" "Yoga will take you to God" "Ritual will reveal Him to you" "But this is not an easy path for everyone" "The common man reaches God through devotion (bhakti marga)" "Anyone may tread this path, man, woman, the worthy or unworthy" "To take God's Name (nama sankirtana) is an easy way" "It burns up the sins of all your births" "There is no need to seek the Lord in the forests" "He comes willingly to you" "That is all that the Bhagavat cult teaches" "But when your Bhagavat cult begins to trample all over the Vedas, then what?" "That doesn't happen, my lord" "That Bhagavat cult is only an extension of the Vedic religion" "All religion teach us that God is omnipresent" "The God Omkar that you describe as formless and without desire" "Is the same as Panduranga to whom we attribute form and desire" "The teachings of the Vedas are many" "But the essence of them all is one" "That you must surrender yourself to God" "But be faithful to one's self." "And chant His Name." "The teaching of all philosophies" "Yields but one meaning" "The scriptures are many" "But the essence is one" "That is the goal, says Tuka" "It is such thoughts that go against Vedic teachings" "Your argument is totally false" "I wish to hear no more" "As a low-caste you've sinned in misinterpreting the Vedas" "So I forbid you to compose any more songs" "And to preach to people" "It was Panduranga who spoke through me in this manner" "But you're the authority" "You too are like God to me" "I will not compose songs from now on" "And the ones composed already?" "Destroy them." "Drown them in the river Indrayani" "I accept your order" "Don't just accept." "Act on it, now!" "The sinful hands that wrote those songs must drown them" "That's your punishment" "Wait." "I'll fetch your songs for you" "You brats." "Get your father's song books out" "Get your father to fetch them, longface" "Who do you think you're talking to?" "I'll slap your face now" "Why are you shouting, Mahadeo?" "He abused my father." "So I abused him" "Well done, Mahadeo, that's my son" "Why have you come here?" "Think we are timid lambs like this?" "What are you doing here?" "Rameshvar Shastri has ordered Tuka to drown his song books" "I've come to take them" "You think you dare do that?" "Rameshvar Shastri orders it" "Give whoever he is a basket of dung to eat!" "Why is he spouting hot air?" "Get out of here now" "Don't talk to him like that, Avala" "So I'm at fault again" "He's asked for your songs to drown them in the river" "Do you want me to give them to him?" "Rameshvar Shastri's orders" "We must obey" "I'll back, Salomalo" "Now what's come over you?" "Have you gone mad?" "You neglected and starved your kids" "Stayed up night after night composing these" "And now you want to drown them" "Why did you take the trouble?" "What do I do with this fool?" "Title deeds drowned, family ruined." "Now songs drowned to ruin himself" "Panduranga, is it of any use shouting Your Name?" "You have plunged Your devotees in despair" "I ruined my home for You" "Chanted Your Name day and night" "Put my family through endless suffering" "And this is what You give me!" "So be it" "You are omnipotent" "You don't like the way I sing Your praises" "I'm no good for anything else" "Then how can I express my devotion?" "You must decide" "I place at Your feet the words of my ardent devotion" "Panduranga, I will also prepare to go" "Let me escape from my body here in Your presence" "SECOND DAY" "The kids are starving since yesterday" "We won't eat unless you eat" "Have this, Mahadeo and Kashi" "Father, please have this" "We won't eat unless he eats" "We won't move from here unless you eat 3RD DAY" "4TH DAY" "5TH DAY" "12TH DAY" "13TH DAY" "Look!" "Look at that" "Tukaram has to be called back" "My body is on fire." "I want to jump in the river" "What's come over you, Shastri?" "You're an erudite Brahmin" "How can you prostrate yourself before this lowly man?" "You need to be worthy to understand the worth of Tukaram" "You will never understand it" "Do you mean I am unworthy?" "Wait till I show you my worth" "Forgive me, lord!" "I have learnt a hard lesson" "After shame and suffering" "To us Tuka is greatness incarnate." "A form of God Himself" "What should I do now?" "They are all fools." "Even Rameshvar Shastri" "What are you writing?" "Gems of poetic expression" "Salo says, idiots, asses..." "It's decided I must go." "I will meet King Shivaji" "Religion must be saved" "I'll teach Tuka and that Rameshvar!" "Don't gape." "Get my things ready" "Yes." "What have I been shouting about?" "Anybody home, little ones?" "Yes." "Me and Mahadeo" "I mean your father, Tukaram?" "He's gone out" "And your mother?" "She is very much alive" "What do you want?" "We have traveled a long way to meet Tukaram" "Have you lost your senses?" "You look like a rich man" "Listen." "Forget that fool" "Or you'll be ruined like me" "Go now, before he gets back" "We carry gifts from Shivaji" "Gifts?" "Come on" "All this is for you" "You mean all this is ours?" "Kashi, Mahadeo?" "Come quickly" "Are you blind?" "They've been standing so long" "Give them a rag to sit on" "Mahadeo, Kashi, get some jaggery and water" "Jaggery?" "We have none" "Oh yes, it's just finished" "Kashi, run and fetch father" " Mahadeo, go and call him." " Why don't you go?" "How pretty my children look" "Anybody might envy me" "You look lovely too, Ma" "Your face looks like the Goddess Satwai's" "Really?" "Hush!" "Keep quiet" "Where are you from?" "We bear gifts from Shivaji" "Gifts?" "Father, there's a robe for you" "How lovely you look now" "As lovely as a pamper!" "But that is poison, Avala" "We don't mind poison." "We can happily digest it" "You might." "But I wouldn't let you" "I wouldn't like my dear ones to perish with this poison" "That's what you should do!" "You spurn this fortune?" "What's in your mind?" "Don't laugh." "My blood is boiling" "For what sin did I deserve this husband?" "Please take this back to Shivaji" "Tell him I bless him" "But I'm not worthy of such honour" "I've only one desire." "Devotion" "But King Shivaji is anxious to see you" "The palanquin is waiting to take you" "I wander in the sun." "I'm dirty" "I'm untouch." "Why bring me before that Prince?" "What will you gain or he?" "A great king like Shivaji invites you..." "How can you not go?" "To me the greatest king and the smallest ant are equal" "He's great, generous." "But I've nothing to ask of him" "He has nothing to give me" "Why waste even a fraction of this life going there?" "If he is anxious to give me something then let him do this" "I would be happy if he would chant the Name of Vitthala" "This immeasurable wealth is like dirt to me" "Wear Basil (Tulasi) beads." "Fast once every fortnight (Ekadashi)" "Call yourself the servant of God." "Says Tuka, this is my desire" "Lord, I am your disciple and a servant of God from today" "You have shown me what asceticism is (vairagya)" "Revealed to me the way to fulfillment" "You may return." "I'm not coming" "What will happen to the kingdom?" "What do I tell the Queen Mother?" "You look after the kingdom" "Tell my mother that her son has found the way to himself" "Shivaji is now fighting the enemy within" "Not the one hiding behind fortifications" "You can't do that" "Not a word more." "Go" "Lord, please guide me as your disciple" "Shivaji, you've traveled far." "Rest till the evening" "I would like to talk to you" "So, our king has also fallen?" "You are responsible for this" "Thief shouting 'thief'!" "Your king is a simpleton." "And you are weak" "You have lost your king and not done your duty" "I had such ideas about our king" "Fools like you foster fakes" "Now to protect Hinduism is to appeal to the Muslim rulers" "Duty (Dharma) is knowledge Duty is the way (sadhana)" "Duty is the ultimate good" "Duty is prestige" "Duty is the way to salvation" "Once this is known" "You find God in stone" "Every man must do his duty" "Therein lies salvation for him (moksha, Paramatma, God)" "You are a warrior caste, (kshatriya) Shivaji" "Your duty is to protect your kingdom and religion" "If you fulfill this duty" "You gain fame in this life and salvation in the other" "But the warrior code spread a net of temptation" "A man ensnared can only escape by seeking God" "That's not true, my king" "It is not necessary to condemn" "It is not necessary to forsake" "And do so in search of God" "The way to God is simple whether king or commoner" "Take God's Name every moment" "Become detached from the world" "With such accumulation of merit" "You may embrace the Lord's feet" "There is no other way but to chant His Name" "Whatever else you may do" "Says Tuka, calling out to you" "Never give up chanting His Name" "How true." "I understand" "I was about to make a grave mistake through ignorance" "But your counsel has set me on the right path" "My king, taking the chance to catch you unaware the chieftain of Chakan is coming with his army" "Panduranga, the enemy is going to attack..." "While Your devotee is engaged in prayer" "I cannot bear this holocaust" "The sufferings of people pain me" "It's as if You don't exist" "I see what I shouldn't" "The enemy attacks a servant of God" "I have never seen such a sight" "Tuka says, You put my devotion to shame" "My life has become totally worthless" "We are surrounded." "Please think" "You become the Lion-man (Narasimha) for Your devotee Prahlada" "You made his word come true" "Your Names!" "Rama, Krishna, Govinda, Narayana, Hari..." "Were chanted by him in the King's court" "All these Names like Vitthala, Madhava, Mukunda, Keshava" "Scared the King of the Ungodly" "Where are You hiding in our hour of need?" "If You forsake Your devotees who will protect them?" "Even if God turns His back on us we will not leave Him" "Let this head break, body crack open" "But the chanting of His Name will not end" "Let this perishable body split in two" "But the song of devotion must go on" "Vitthal..." "Shivaji, Panduranga has been true to us" "He has saved our honour" "How much should I praise You." "Savior of the gentle and the weak" "You saved us." "You were true to us" "A glimpse of Krishna" "Is like a nectar" "In Your dusken hue is absorbed the cosmos" "February 16, 1652." "Saint Tukaram leaves for his heavenly home" "Devotion is Vitthala." "Knowledge is Vitthala" "I'm now in state when I am neither yours nor mine" "I am Vitthala." "I go to my heavenly home (Vaikuntha)" "You've said so a hundred times" "Why talk such nonsense?" "Avali, I'm telling the truth" "You must come with me" "Forget home, children, cattle" "Fine things you're teaching me" "If I started dancing with you, our home would be lost" "I'm not coming" "Avala, you have stood by me all through this worldly life" "Don't leave me now" "You have supported my every step" "You protected me from toil and the problems of home and family" "Leaving me free for devotion" "If you hadn't been with me, I wouldn't have seen this day" "You did your duty as a wife" "Now it is time for us to enjoy the fruits of my devotion" "It is my duty to take you with me" "Avala, come." "Let us share eternal joy" "Once you experience it you will despise all earthly joys" "I don't think I'll be happy there" "Without my home and children!" "Listen to me." "Forget about heaven" "I know!" "You've got the urge to wander" "So you've thought up this excuse" "Go along then but come back soon" "I have also asked my God for a boon" "Remember, the kids won't eat till you return" "Panduranga, keep her happy" "Be happy in the world." "But let your mind transcend it" "In my experience there is only one way to attain God is to chant His Name" "It strengthens faith and purifies the soul" "The mind is a wanderer" "Only God's Name can give it direction" "Sincere love leads to concentrated devotion" "A continual chanting of God's Name fills our souls with concentrated devotion" "Through this, one attains God" "God's Name on the lips, salvation in hand" "That's the experience of many" "Meditation brings one untold gain" "The chanting of God's Name (nama sankirtana)" "Lord Hari is here, holding conchshell and the sacred wheel" "Swooping down on the eagle (Garuda) full of gentle assurance" "His crown and earstuds make the Sun look pale" "His dusky complexion is beautiful" "He has four arms and wears the Vaijayanti garland" "His golden silk fills the Universe with its luster" "Tuka is contented." "His heavenly place has come to him" "You're not making bread while Tuka's off to heaven?" "Hurry up" "I go to where I belong" "I bid you farewell" "Now we will not meet" "In this birth again" "Feel compassion for me" "I bow to you" "When you return to where you belong" "Chant Vitthala's Name" "Chant Vitthala" "Chant the Names of Rama, Krishna" "Tuka goes to Vaikuntha" "Panduranga Hari..." "Janma Tukaram..."