A depraved taste will eat cowdung for the sweet roots that grow in it; though food were offered such a one, he would not have it. When he is rebuked, he deems himself praised; he looks on a thrashing as a compliment. A depraved taste follows its dirty inclinations, and gives not up its base habits. Tuka goes on shaming the wretch, to make him quit his vile ways.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1075
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents