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.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 213
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents