Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 333

Do not imagine to bring together things discordant in their natures. What is to happen will happen because it is destined; what Narayana has ordained will come to pass. If you kill a cow to satisfy a hungry tiger, will it be called a meritorious deed? Tuka says, If a man is too lazy to think the matter out, his father and mother are asses.

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