Polluted; even so the name of Hari should not be heard from a wretch polluted with thoughts of self. What would the use of the thirty-two marks of beauty to one without a nose? Tuka says, A dye prevents food from digesting when mingled with the food; it makes it like itself.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2551
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents