The book of omens gives you at once what you desire, in the form of a response, but Vitthala gives you immediately either milk or water. What fruit is possible without good fortune, so long as the mind is full of filth? Tuka says, If your store of merit is small, it will keep you miserable.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2907
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents