Tukaram, Poem 3354

We should give food to all creatures, but money only after due consideration of their fitness; for we should only sow seed where it will grow. Otherwise, while intending to do well, we may sin, like one who should fatten a snake on milk, or purchase sorrow for himself by reciting weird spells. The earth is all the same to look at; nevertheless, parts of the soil are rocky, parts gravelly, and parts of black earth. Some are good, some poor, and some middling. Hence, if you wish to do right, you must first discriminate. Tuka says, A choice dish prepared without sugar would have no flavour.