“I am wild and foolish; other men are better than I.” I need pardon for this speech, and in these words I pray for it. The notion of “I and mine” is wrongful; it is a burden on a man; long ago I renounced it, says Tuka, and I laid aside my human nature.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1441
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents