My people are buried under prohibitions, contentious people under talk; how weary they grow, in the embarrassing straits of pride! What have they gained by their winnowing? They have lost their world and the next. Tuka says, What butter can be abstracted from whey that has once been churned?
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1041
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents