Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2681

Nothing of the world clung to me; I became solitary; I knew no other attachment.
See how the cowherd tortured me and drove me
mad! He attached me to himself and hid me in
him. Tuka says, I did not comprehend this till
I was ruined by devotion to Him.

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