Arjun frowned. “I know the words. ‘The Goddess who dwells in all beings as the power of Vishnu… salutations to her.’”
“Yes,” she said. “But not a distant goddess in a golden heaven. Listen.” ya devi sarvabhuteshu meaning
“No,” Ma Gyaneshwari said, opening her eyes. “You know the translation. Not the meaning. The meaning is this: She is the alertness in the sleeping child. She is the heat in the fire. She is the memory in the seed. And in your daughter, she is present as Maya —not illusion, but the divine will to rest, to heal, to dream.” Arjun frowned
He saw the mosquito: its delicate wings, its hunger for a single drop of life. That is also the Devi , he thought. In the insect, as the will to live. “But not a distant goddess in a golden heaven
"Salutations to the Goddess who resides in all living beings in the form of a mother. Salutations to Her, salutations to Her, salutations to Her again and again."