A vigorous body is the instrument needed for your service; O Panduranga, do not suffer my body to be wasted! Shorten my life, but let me still delight in Thy praises. Tuka says, There is no loss worse than the loss of these.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 481
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents