Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2493

If some day you learn what Brahma is, in that instant all pride will fall. Pride took hold of Shuka, his father Vyasa looked on him with anger. He sent him to meet Janaka. He was taught that pride is false coin. When he showed him its falsehood, he set him to practise austerities; Shuka went thereon to a peak of Mount Meru. When he came there he fell into a divine ecstasy; at that time, says Tuka, I myself was there.

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