All you who enter the world think well what is meant by this cry, “Attend!” Give a thought to the end of your days; the hours and moments are flying past you. Daughters and sons are no good omen for you; through them respect for the world comes between you and God like a screen. Tuka says, God is screened from you thereby; darkness falls on your eyes.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2426
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents