They have mingled poison and spoiled the nectar. Luckless creatures! They have no more sense than to hide the truth and pollute themselves. If a man should cut off his nose and stick a piece of gold there, would it be an ornament? Tuka says, That would be like destroying a well and building a mosque.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1545
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents