Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 257

You saints need feel no anxiety; nor wonder how you can turn a crystal into a diamond. You must test a thing by the rules of its own place and time, and allow it whatever its worth may be. If you punish one, you will frighten many; this reproach will be in many mouths. Tuka says, My words are not foolish, no madman’s ravings.

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