Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 466

I have pledged my body, speech and mind; I have become a debtor to You to make a profit. I had lost all; my belly sank in through hunger; so I gave up the world and found repose, O God! I have not a tola nor the twelfth of a tola left to give You; you know it already, O Lord of the illusive world! Others mightier than I have incurred heavy debts to You. Tuka says, Take and make your own any being who is heavily on your books.

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