Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2448

Though it is drawing near its end the world is blind; they think not a scrap of their true advantage, their hearts are of stone. What avails it a broken potsherd, though it touches the magic stone? Tuka says, A wicked man merely increases his wicked qualities.

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