Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2876

Why should I attain liberation as long as I
have life? I should lose the comfort of love.
Narayana is a slave of the Vaishnavas; what
would it profit them to be absorbed into him?
What have I lost from my own purse, that I
should sit down sunk in silence? For us this pure
delight was brought into existence; a luckless
mortal is he who repels it. Tuka says, I do not
desire absolute union; I will stay in the company
of the saints.

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