Passage 4

In English

Train the eye to find the Footprints of God

read some poems from , where the gambols of the child are described very picturesquely. Outwardly, the stanzas appear to picture objective things, but they have a deep subjective value. You must use the objective picture as a flame to light the subjective emotion of devotion. For example, there is a stanza about the child overturning the pot of curds and running away with the ball of butter and the mother discovering His hiding place, by means of the footprints impressed on the floor by the curdsmeared soles.