Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2933

What is there that God loves more than
worshippers? Nothing else in the three
worlds. He loves not Vaikuntha nor the sea of
milk; he seizes and stays in his worshippers’ minds.
With all his heart He finds them altogether sweet;
He accepts from them a tulsi-leaf with fond delight.
He says He has been sold to them altogether; he
attends to everything they say. Tuka says, He is a
slave to the bliss of devotion; there is nothing else
that constrains Him.

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