Tukaram, Poem 1029

Do they not know what has happened to others? Why must we tell them about it? They may see and hear it, and they know what the Puranas have said. They know the question whether the body is real or perishable; why cannot their own experience answer it, as they pass through childhood, youth and age? Why do they delight in wife or child or wealth; who has ever at any time found these help him? Why has the excellent gift of life been given them in vain; why do they not utter Rama! Rama!? Why when they know all do they forget it, though they see others die before them? What will they do, says Tuka, when death with his adamantine chains seizes and binds them?