Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2176

“I am coming,” cries one to a drowning man,
how the words increase his strength!
When a hungry man sees some hope of food, what
patience and strength and peace of mind he feels!
Tuka says, I have laid my body at Thy feet; I have
given Thee as it were a bit of glass for the jewel of
desires.

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