What do we owe to one who gives us a perishable boon? Do not serve us up such counterfeits; give us the reality, O Vitthala! Is she truly a mother who leaves her child crying behind her? Tuka says, Those are truly pious deeds that make Thy fame to spread.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3120
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents