Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 8

I have renounced the world, sprinkling my
head against it; now I shall let no trouble
touch me. Why should I pollute my hands, to
wash them again? Thus hindrances beset us in
the way we have to walk. God has ordained every-
thing and assigned everything to its own place.
Tuka says, When we forget to think of ourselves,
we cease to speak of “ours” or “another’s.”

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