Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3009

I obey your injunctions, nevertheless I am much afraid of you. So I make your feet my familiar friends; I do not ask to sit beside you. With folded hands, I stand waiting before you. Tuka says, O ye Saints, I am a sinful man.

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