Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2504

A man with his eyes open runs away through fear of some disease; he does not perceive how near death is to him always. How he has confounded all the quarters of the sky! His habits never leave him on the road. Though all his powers are waning he is still anxious about the world. Tuka says, Our weak understandings go astray, O Narayana!

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