राम
Abhanga 948Social Criticism

The Insignificance of Caste

English Translation · I.P. 948

LET me keep company with the saints in any guise; let me lie at their doors like a dog. Then I shall hear the name of Rama; I shall feed on the scraps they leave behind. To be a slave with them, a bond-maid, and a servant, yea, to be humble and wretched with them is good. Tuk& says, I shall have perfect joy with the saints; if it is granted me to sit with them. XIX Jlppeals and exhortations

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

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Social Criticism

Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.

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