Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2850

Why do you force yourselves into a madness
for religion? God stands just before you.
He has neither front nor back, yet he swallows the
three worlds at a mouthful. You do not see the
opportunities which lie before you; who would
lose anything if you did so? Tuka sings of God
by the aid of his name; in this matter there is no
‘We’ and ‘You’.

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