Tukaram, Poem 514

We cannot experience his pleasure as long as
the soul hesitates over it. If you avoid all
grief for past pleasures, he will set you free from
association with them. Tuka says, In all ways he
It is hard to reach the glorious estate of the
saints; there is no opportunity for talkative
people here. A cow or a buffalo may be a stout
animal, but it will not equal the wishing cow.
Tuka says, You must be yourself what you ought to
be, then you will know what that glorious state is
like.