Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 120

My body is burning, like a forest on fire, run! O Kesava! It is kindled with all the hair on it; I cannot stop the fire, I am burned up like a hol. My heart is about to burst—why dost Thou look on? Bring water and run quickly; no one else can help me. Tuka says, Thou art my mother, who else will help me in the last hour?

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