Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1227

We accompany you, Hari, because we have
no shame to keep us in our due place.
You lifted up a mountain, a splendid feat, and saved
us! Now let us play no more; our cows have
wandered away; it has grown late. Keep back
those stragglers, lest they go too far! When you
jumped into the Yamuna, you saved us gloriously;
verily we are shameless creatures, that we are not
utterly afraid of this infinite one! When you were
a child, you played with us, you ate fire and dirt
like a child, but we want your company no more
in this guise. We desire now that he should surround
and protect us, Tuka says. In your company
no wish remains unfulfilled; you withdraw farther
and farther from the wise and consort with the
simple.

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