Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 851

What purpose remains unfulfilled that I should trouble Thee any longer? For Thy name’s sake I need suffer no loss of life or aught else; it recurs easily to the mind. It brings no pangs, nor inflicts starvation; nor demands wealth in cows and buffaloes. O worshipper, all this you know well: why then do you believe in worldly wealth? Tuka says, People break away from Thy feet, through the love of the fleeting world.

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