WHY am I made thus pitiful and brought low among the abject? Why is thy power weakened as it seems, O God ! I am ashamed to call myself thy servant; once my speech was filled with a sweetness far different from the taste of these words. Once I could put to shame the utterances of the saints; I know the character of my words to-day from comparing them with what once £ said. Tuka says, What is it that has made me speak, except thy favour, O Vitthala ?