Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1939

We are troubled at heart by greed; but you, like a lord of the senses, heed us not. Whose aid could enable us to maintain a quarrel with a powerful one? We are crushed by the cycle of rebirths; our lord sits idle at home. Tuka says, In spite of all argument, I cannot understand this difference between us.

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