What Is True Devotion?
What is true devotion?
He is a farmer-
His means may not be much;
Not highly literate
To know by heart
The hymns and compositions
Of great seers and sages
Or of religious poets
To roll out in animated devotion
In front of deities in temples
To exhibit his borrowed arrogance
And assume a halo
Demanding attention-
He is not in saintly attire
Nor with a flowing beard
That brings respect in its wake-
Humbly dressed
Crowded by his family-
He knows not the names
Of the many deities installed-
His only purpose is
To worship god
And to fulfill the vow
Taken on a crisis-
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poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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