Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3464

The projects we form are the sources of sin and merit. They originate in the mind; the mind conforms itself to the fancies that arise in it. When we refuse to do or not to do, to stir or to advance, then call us good. Tuka says, Our life may truly be called a sea.

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