If people praise or blame me as they will, and say I have lost my reason. My own rule is to think of what I aim at; why should I defer to men? Tuka says, Why should I join in the fabrications of the world? Any pleasure given by worldly life is fleeting.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2736
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents