om devatamaya namah

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This is one of the 108 names of Sri Bhagavan and its meaning

is:Best of gods, God of supreme.

 

The Supreme is accessible to us here and now,like this

mornings sun,not yesterdays ot tomorrows.This God of

Every Day is immanent in us and the world.Cf., Derek Nevilles

poem in the Mountain Path,April,1975.

 

I will not have God in his heaven,

And part of his creation

Still in hell.

I want God grimy with the grime of men

Hewing in face of coal;

Glistening in sweat

On brows, fired of work.

I want God dirty with the dirt of towns,

All soot-encrusted there among the chimney-pots.

I want heaven and God put back where they

belonge-Waiting on earth

Until men come to see

The glory of the everyday

Behind their greed and blindness.

Oh-he shall sing with birds upon the bough

And e shall ride up there among the blue,

In the dark night of cities,

Among the earth-bound,

And the dead.

Then, then shall he be waiting

Like a jewel

Hid in the dark,clay-shuttered

Souls of mn.

Freed,at long last,from pulpit

And from pew,

From sect and creed,

From Litany and Mass;

No longer what we seek,

But what we've found-

Here, on the common earth,

In common ways,

With every heart a manger

And every life a throne.

 

 

Om sriramanaya maha