It is good for us now to implore Thy mercy; thou knowest how to dispose of our prayer. Our own doings amount to nothing; let us not enter the stream of instruments of liberation. Tuka says, I have given my body as an offering to my fathers; who would trouble his mind with incessant anxiety?
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2038
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents