If you insist on things coming to pass as you say they must, you will wipe out the austerities you have passed through. They are fools who parade the wealth and blessings that visit them. Through affectations and regard for honour we are parted from God. Those wretches, says Tuka, who serve for payment, how can they enjoy the sweets of renunciation?
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2492
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents