Set no sinful desire before my eyes! Better I were blind! Let my ears listen to no scandal; make me rather deaf, O God! Let me never lust after other men’s wives; better this clay were removed from the earth! Tuka says, I abhor everything; I find my pleasure in Gopala alone.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2769
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents