They practise worship according to their own ideas of pleasure and they say, “Narayana has enjoyed it.” They say, “God is present everywhere,” and they break their heads over the meaning of the Vedas. They are ashamed to bear the ascetic’s gourd and to wear his patched clothes. Their desires are set on shawls and pots and money; they assert in every speech that these things are perishable. Tuka says, God will never come to meet such people, though they be re-born time after time till the end of the world.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1196
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents