Tukaram, Poem 691

The religious rites of our fathers should be sought in knowledge and means of attainment; such things deserve the name as place a treasure in our hands. Such things are devotion and a smooth passage to salvation; through them we shall reach peace. Such things are compassion and the service of mankind; in them is the very essence of the true path; in them are greatness and honour and the attainment of the other world. Such things, says Tuka, show that what we call God is God, if we have faith according to their precepts.