Is the chirping of the birds also not a call of prayer? Is the humming of a song not an act of worship? Is working in the burning hot fields in summer to supply children with food not a supreme act of devotion? Why then does divinity need to be divided and distributed as tabarak (blessings) and prasad only from temples and mosques? Why can’t divinity be found in the smile of an infant or the fear of a calf separated from its mother? Is divinity not present in the multifarious colours of the world—the starving sadhu, the overfed Brahmin, the lecherous mulla, the innocent giggle? Is this also
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