Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 920

If I wish to invite the saints, I can find no
materials to entertain them; O thou who art
the soul of the universe, tell me how to serve them
fully. It needs an ocean to contain an ocean; how
can I become vast enough to receive one? Tuka
says, It were well to call oneself sincerely a suppliant.

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