Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1022

Why are you not ashamed to call yourself servant of Hari, when you are willing to call an ignoble man ‘Maharaja’? Is your stomach unsatisfied or what else do you need that you go on wagging your tail in public? Tuka says, It is our belly that brings scorn upon us, that makes a man abject and sets him calling for pity.

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