पंढरीचा राजा विठोबा रखुमाई।
भक्तांच्या संगती उभा राहिला आई॥

Vitthala, king of Pandharpur, stands among devotees with Rakhumai beside him.

Tukaram · Abhanga

Translator's note

on the language of the verse

Tukaram’s devotion is intimate, not distant. God is imagined among ordinary people, not above them.

The voice

Tukaram

तुकाराम

The Merchant Who Turned Grief into Song, c. 1608 – 1649.

The questions it touches
  • Devotion