What keeps us from thee is this: our sense of self parts us. God has shown us this secret truth, and dispelled all illusion. It is as though a man should twist his own ear; the pain he suffers is much the same. Tuka says, While we enjoy the bliss of solitude, all the congeners of the body are bound up there together with it.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3211
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents