Women, sons, and wives are part of the illusion of the world; none of them is a reality at the latter end. They hand us over bound to Yama; they strip the ornaments off our corpse. How can we trust thieves like these? We cling to Your waist, says Tuka.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3462
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents