Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 45

I speak though I am silent; I am dead yet alive; I am in the world yet out of it. I have renounced all, yet I have my fill of pleasure; I am alone yet not alone; I have severed all ties. Tuka says, I am not what I seem, if you ask what I am, ask Panduranga.

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