राम
Abhanga 846Renunciation

That We Should Renounce It

English Translation · I.P. 846

TAKE not on your head at all the burden of the world; devotion itself compels you to cast away everything. To make the beggar’s calling a trade is the act of a fool; how can a man live in the bazaar, and put away desires from him ? A poet without the gift is a man of milk and water. Tuka says, Be either a sage or a downright clown.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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Renunciation

The case for letting go of worldly attachments and turning wholly to God.

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