When a mother-cow eats her fill in a pasture, the calf in her womb expects no call to feed. Even so, when we honour the Vaishnavas, the god within them is contented. A father delights in the triumphs of his son. Tuka says, When nectar is placed before us, all hunger, all maladies vanish.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3480
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents