Tell me, what service shall I render thee?
We are ruined by pedantry, O God! Thy
secret we cannot penetrate now; unless thou
shouldst tell it me, I look to be ruined. Rules for
ablution and conduct are abolished. ‘What is
there in them?’ people say: Adoration is abolished.
‘Images are stones,’ they say; ‘men
have set them up to get food for their own bodies.’
‘Men should neither preach nor fast,’ they say;
public worship has been abolished. ‘Men should
not visit temples; they have God in their own
homes’. Thus, says Tuka, they have ruined
everything.
We are ruined by pedantry, O God! Thy
secret we cannot penetrate now; unless thou
shouldst tell it me, I look to be ruined. Rules for
ablution and conduct are abolished. ‘What is
there in them?’ people say: Adoration is abolished.
‘Images are stones,’ they say; ‘men
have set them up to get food for their own bodies.’
‘Men should neither preach nor fast,’ they say;
public worship has been abolished. ‘Men should
not visit temples; they have God in their own
homes’. Thus, says Tuka, they have ruined
everything.