If disease assaults us, it will be a strange experience for the servants of Vishnu; this would bring shame on Thee—need we tell thee so? Shall time eat us up? Shall the words we have uttered pass away in vain? Tuka says, Servants of Thine as we are, shall we re-enter the womb?
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1941
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents