You are my protector, but these clowns cannot perceive this. They revile me face to face, and behind my back; they will some day go to hell. They call me a poet, though in their sinful hearts they deny it. Tuka says, Who would pay any heed now to this world?
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2778
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents