What is the use of these hired monkeys that dance before the world? When Yama searches them, they show their teeth; his satellites drag them over hot iron-rods. They shake their hands and teeth, they play their tricks to win applause. Tuka says, I cannot count how many such bearers of burdens have suffered shame.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3689
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents