Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3585

Sweet food is wasted on sick men, sandal on
apes; camphor on crows; a noseless man
loves not a mirror, nor a fool instruction in the
Scriptures. Tuka says, Generous Vitthala alone
can lighten the darkness of the ignorant.

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