Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 950

When we are thirsty, we are delighted to come
across water; let the company of the saints
be as dear to us as that. When sweet food is
placed before a man, he sometimes forgets to say
“Enough.” Tuka says, A mother yearns over a
child when she meets him.

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