2.

Deva

A self-luminous and self-amorous God-Existence

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A deva is he who is at once a never-changing Reality and an ever-transcending Beauty.

He is an experience of God-hunger on earth and a realisation of God-feast in Heaven.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,The core of India's Light, part 1, Agni Press, 1992
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