Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 755

In the company of God men turn into God; they who range themselves with the world perish. Each road will take you in a different direction; will bring a different store of merit or demerit. I have shown you the two, but you cannot avoid your own; you must fulfil and be responsible for your own destiny. Tuka says, It is the innate preference that triumphs; instruction is merely a seed that is sown in you.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents