Shri Tukaram Charitam II Vol III Book VIII Chp 9 Shlokas 18 - 22
तं दृष्ट्वा परमं कोपमवाप्यापि पतिव्रता |
पतिमुन्मत्तवृत्तान्तं प्रावोचत्तर्जयत्यपि ||
जीजाबायी उवाच
ईदृशं मन्दबुद्धिं त्वां भर्तारं प्राप्य दुर्भगा |
सीदामि गृहभारेण चिन्ताकुलितमानसा ||
येनकेनप्रकारेण पोषयामि च बालकान् |
त्वं तु सर्वं परित्यज्य विट्ठलं भजसे सदा ||
निन्दन्ति बान्धवाः सर्वे दृष्ट्वा त्वां प्रहसन्ति च |
लोकवेदविरुद्धस्त्वं कुरुषे हरिकीर्तनम् ||
एकेनैवेक्षुदण्डेन किं फलं दुर्मते मम |
क्षुत्क्लान्तजठरास्म्यत्र बालकैः सह दुःखिता ||
At that, Kanakabai, the chaste and loving wife of Tukaram, for wild. She started rebuking her husband for behaving like a fool.
Kanakabai said
I am very unfortunate to have a foolish husband like you. I am taking care of you and the children with very great difficulty. But you are not aware of all this and you are always engaged in singing the glory of Shri Panduranga. All the relatives talk low of you. They are making fun of you. You are always engaged in Hari-bhajan, trespassing all the rules of the Shastras and the regulations of normal world. What use is this lone sugar-cane stick to me ? The children are afflicted by terrible hunger.
