Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 450

The magic stone by its virtue has turned common metal into gold; even so, O Lord of Pandhari, consider not my faults or shortcomings. The Ganges does not charge with impurity a filthy stream that runs below a village. Tuka says, Common earth is valued if musk has imparted its odour into it.

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