Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1891

Give me, O God, the happiness of solitude;
take away all that brings ruin on my soul.
I am a heap of sin, says Tuka; O set me behind
Thy back.

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