Tukaram, Poem 2915

Who asks a mother to love her child? It is her infant that creates love in her. It is the yearning of her heart that makes her protect him. O thou that art dark as a cloud, we compare thee to mortal parents, but we see that it adds no grace to Thee. The mother guards her child here on earth, but in the next world she is not near him; not so is it with thee. O Infinite One, Thou art master of Time! Tuka says, O Narayana, Thy compassion is greater than hers.