Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1230

A fire broke out round them. “O Kanho,
what shall we do? How shall we save our
lives? Run, Hari, we are in a fire! We do not
know what to do in this fire: on a sudden we saw
the flame overhead; when we turned round, we
saw it, for we had been looking the other way; we
are surrounded; we cannot run away.” Tuka
says, You know what to do; do it, O infinite one!

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