Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1384

We saints, do you place on my head this burden of divinity? ’Tis Narayana that sets us puppets in motion, and teaches us our many devices and diversions. What power of their own had Rama’s monkeys? Yet the rocks they cast in water swam. Tuka says, He puts forward some pretended agent, he sets dull fellows dancing before our eyes.

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