I speak out of my experience, the innermost thoughts of my heart. The juice of the milk bush may be white, but how can it taste like milk? Every object has its own exterior, and thus is made up the vast world, as we know it. Tuka says, The light of a glow worm shines only round his own back.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2090
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents