Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3239

A blind man describes things as they are described to him; but a man who can see has the evidence of his eyes before him.
When a man has an established dwelling-place, this shows that his fathers before him were powerful men.
How can a feeble man find any comfort in life?
Tuka says, Let us make ourselves a home by our own valour, then we can praise it to the world.

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