Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1167

You pay entrance-money, and store up sin, in
looking on boys disguised for the stage. If
you listen to Hari’s ministers singing his praise,
there merit is secured in growing measure. If
someone in Hari’s part steals boys’ clothes to show
the theft of the cowherd damsels, the sin is that of
incest. Tuka says, Such is the world nowadays;
people love the outward show, they have renounced
service and piety.

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