Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 110

He cannot follow his trade; he gets bread
thrust into his mouth; he gets up and
strikes his cymbals and makes no end of a noise.
He is a dead man; he has pounded up shame and
swallowed it. He forgets all about his family;
they are ruined; his women folk are frightened
to death, they hate their own existence.” Tuka
says, All right, wife, I will leave you alone; I give
you a written promise.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents