Narayan Vaman Tilak: Christ through Tukaram

Some work done by a Columbia Univ. guy about him

This describes him as a revivalist Marathi poet.

I found a poem written by the dude, unfortunately in English. I reproduce it here. I liked it.
One who is all unfit to count

One who is all unfit to count
As scholar in Thy school,
Thou of Thy love hast named a friend
O kindness wonderful!

Thou dwellest in unshadowed light,
All sin and shame above
That Thou shouldst bear our sin and shame,
How can I tell such love?

Ah, did not He the heavenly throne
A little thing esteem,
And not unworthy for my sake
A mortal body deem?

When in His flesh they drove the nails,
Did He not all endure?
What name is there to fit a life
So patient and so pure?

So, Love itself in human form,
For love of me He came;
I cannot look upon His face
For shame, for bitter shame.

If there is aught of worth in me
It comes from Thee alone;
Then keep me safe, for so, O Lord,
Thou keepest but Thine own.

The introduction here is indeed right. I am intimidated, intimidated by anyone who tries to tell me that my shell of unrealistic escapism, religion that is, might be wrong, and the only way to save myself from the consequences of this blunder is to adopt his shell of unrealistic escapism. Brrr....

By the way, isn't "Zo ze vaanchhila to te laaho" [Who what desires, he that may get.] better than "To all men all things"? I mean, they appear quite similar to the lay man. To the techie, though, it's clear that the former has a smarter client, while in the latter, the server takes major load in dispense. Also in the former, there seems to exist no dispensing authority like it does in the latter, which might change it's mind one fine day and set up privileged access to resources. But in the former system there is nothing to prevent one from desiring something that might cause harm to other systems. But then all systems have this privilege, eventually the clients will realise the merit of co-operation and we will have a perfect world. D. Kulkarni, you the man!

There are many more poems of Tilak on the TAMAT site, in case you liked the one here.