Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2428

You cannot take a journey unless you have money for expenses in your purse; when your body is wasted you will feel compelled to beg. Do not treat yourselves in this way; call out “Rama, Rama” continually. When your own wife and children ask you to utter “Rama” and you will not do so you will fall into the hands of Yama, you will be tortured by the eighty-four lakhs of re-births. He is a murderer of his soul, who has not the name of Rama in his mouth; he is a clown, says Tuka, with no sense of shame.

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