Splendour accompanies a prince, he need issue no orders. In this world no one honours another without some reward; God alone gives his mercy freely. Ornamentation will not last on anything; the substance beneath soon shows through. Tuka says, If Narayana dwells in the heart, a sympathetic demeanour proves His grace.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 699
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents