Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2585

A man may perchance have a wife that drags him irresistibly down to hell; that will not let him go on pilgrimage, that keeps him like a parrot at the house, that makes him serve and worship Goddesses; such people are beasts, says Tuka, they destroy themselves.

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