Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3713

If you coat a stone with sugar and set it upright,
the crowd will think it genuine. So long as
men are mad after sensuous pleasures, some one
will deceive the crowd by coating things on the
surface. How can such hypocrites serve Hari?
They know not what is purity of faith. Tuk says,
How can any one be a saint so long as his mind is
polluted by lust and anger?

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