We men become as senseless as brutes when they take to chewing bodily pleasures. Setting their desires on objects of desire, they have ruined the spiritual essence of the soul. Solid food they have prepared and handed over to others, like a foolish cook who gets buttermilk for himself to drink. Tuka says, This body of ours is a great danger and source of destruction.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 875
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents