When they have entered a human body, if they close their eyes, and obstinately make themselves into blind men; if they will not walk in the light, knowing the ills that will come upon them, then, though they have suffered many a revolution, and passed through many a cycle, they have no such advantage again before them. Tuka says, I will beckon to them as I go forward; let anyone come to meet me who will.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1405
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents