Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2016

A dried-up stock needs a vast rainfall—I am fit to be compared to that by reason of my state. Come not to me on foot, leave Thy bearer, Garuda, make even more speed and become part of my very mind. Tuka says, Thy child cannot bear the pangs of hunger; the vital principle has shrunk to death within Him.

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