Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2523

What have the water creatures done, that the fisherman seeks to destroy them? This is a design born of human nature, enmity of kind against kind. The archer slays the game without any fault of theirs. Tuka says, So likewise do rogues molest the saints.

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