Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 981

Look not even on your teacher’s son, if he be
impious, more than on the face of the in-
cestuous. To avoid such it were well to seek
solitude, where nothing can interrupt our devotion.
Consort not with a fault-finder, for his evil heart is
full of enmity. Tuka says, Never speak to one
whose sight increases sin.

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