Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1058

They are hard-hearted listeners whose mind is bent on praise or blame; a luckless fool is he who is absent from service while he is present. He spends his ears, eyes and speech on a profitless purpose; he is an associate of sin; let his negligent mouth be filled with dirt. He is truly profited who has learned to forget the wants of the body. Tuka cries fie on such; he renounces them and shaves their heads.

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