Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1037

Bean pleasure is like a grain of barley, pain like a mountain. O remember, remember! Heed thou the word of the saints! Night takes away half our lives, together with childhood and old age. Tuka says, After this they are fools who pursue pleasures, like oxen yoked to an oilman’s mill.

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