Give me, O God, a humble condition; for the ant finds a particle of sugar to eat. Airavata is a huge jewel, but he has to endure the goad. Grandeur brings sharp torments. Tuka says, Know that we ought to be smaller than the smallest of things.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 363
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents