Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1883

Narayan has created us helpless slaves of
the senses; this is why we have to endure
these sufferings—need I tell any one so? I have no
such strength as to quit the world; very, very
false to me is my destiny, says Tuka.

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