They are born in the body, yet how could we call them our friends? Simples grow in the forest, yet how could we call them strangers? Tuka says, Such is the body’s relation to us, if we make it a friend, it is a friend.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 828
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents