Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 874

We ought to call nothing here our own, but this speech of ours is wild, and sets us chattering. This mass of the five elements, this body, is truly not ours. Tuka says, Illusion is ever walking backwards.

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