Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1252

The pot hangs aloft in the rope: I will rise to the height of three men. You stand on each side, and open your mouth: as the streams flow out let them run down your elbows. Tuka says, “Judge of the weight by your arms; he gives neither more nor less to any one.”

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