I had been impressed and dragged far away, with a burden on my head; now I have escaped from the burden, for You have accepted me. How many times I cried to You in time past! Tuka says, To-day my service has borne fruit.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 594
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents