Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2904

Day and night are alike a season of war with us; within, without; war in the world, war in the mind. Day and night unseen powers attack us; they are always advancing and always assaulting us. Tuka says, In the might of Thy name we have blackened the faces of all of them.

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