Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 213

Had I not been a sinner, how could there have been a Saviour? So my name is the source, and hence, O sea of mercy, comes Thy purifying power. Iron is the glory of the Parisa, else had it been but an ordinary stone. Tuka says, Through the petitioner’s faith comes the honour of the tree of wishes.

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