Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1589

For a cake-offering I offered my body; the sesamum water was thrown on the three roots. My own impulses were ended by one sacred text; Brahma was finally surrendered to Brahma. Whether the thread should be on the left or the right I forgot; this alone I remembered, that the one principle belongs to the one Vishnu. Fatherhood and sonhood vanished; I saw that Janardana indivisible is diffused among all men. I attained the whole reality of worship as it truly is, by a natural impulse I seized the occasion. Tuka says, I have set all men free; now I make my last salutation to them.

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