He chased away Kali and emerged; they point him out far away from them. While they thought him a stranger, they could not recognize him; they doubted whether it were he or not. There was a change in his aspect; dark as he was, he appeared bright. Tuka pats the cowherds on the back and confesses, “Truly he is God.”
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1238
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents