Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 834

He holds lightly at all times the place of Brahma, whose treasure is still Hari’s name. The joys of Indra’s heaven he counts not joy, but a sickness of mortality. The empire of the world is useless to him; he esteems the sovereignty of hell an evil; he counts the height of mystic power as nothing, and the joy of liberation as sorrow. Tuka says, Away from Hari he deems all life wretched.

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