Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1838

There will be nothing to trouble this entanglement with the world, nothing to cut short this disease of life.
Therefore I hurry on, an hour saved is an hour of gold. Our senses go to work according to our desires; our store of deserts throws us back into the womb.
Let us burn up all the seeds to make the cowherd our own.

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