Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2736

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.

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