Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1490

Through desire of increasing his possessions, madness after wealth comes over a man. Then follows another evil, that the miser dislikes his own children. He gazes on his money, and then everything else is a blank to him. Tuka says, O God, great is Your cupidity.

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