If a man does not love the company of the Vaishnavas, we may be sure he was a mang in a former birth. Impure in speech, vile in caste is he; he understands not the rule of good behaviour or religion. A piece of aconite tastes sweet, but it ends by destroying life. Tuka says, If a man’s father is not pure, he is far from Govinda.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3611
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents