Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2846

Your body belongs to God, your wealth to
Kubera; what right has man over these
things? It is God Who gives and brings about all
gifts, who leads and causes us to be led; what
power has man in these matters? Yet this mortal
creature esteems himself master of the cause; he
wastes his life saying ‘Mine’, ‘Mine’. Tuka says,
To secure perishable treasures, why do you struggle
with God?

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