Keep me far from talkative men, far from those who condemn the saints and forget Thee, O Govinda! Cursed be the face of such a one; let me not set eyes on a quarrelsome man! Tuka says, O God, keep me far from them.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1044
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents