Tukaram, Poem 337

It is a student’s duty to recite the Vedas; in the second stage a man must perform the six tasks. When he takes to the forest he seeks separation through union; a sanyasi must renounce his plans. If a man is initiate, know his open secret; he is beyond all caste, religion or family. He who preaches a rule and does not follow it, he is a sinner, as the Vedas say. Tuka says, Every state has its own rules; it is all empty toil that ends in pain.