When we offend, you punish us; why then are you deaf to our calls? You have beguiled some by gifts of wealth and powers; I ask you for none of these things. Why should I be wrapped up in them and spread abroad a cheating display? Why should I play the hypocrite once more; I have guarded Thy promise, thy original promise, storing it up in my heart. Tuka says, I have prepared a true statement of accounts between us, for I knew you would check it in the end.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1914
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents