Adorable Boss of the Blue
a Prayer Poem of Adoration by Paramhansa Yogananda (October 1934)
Adorable One, you are very meek, although you are the most colossal business man, running the factory of the Cosmos; yet you never speak about your great work.
You have caparisoned this Cosmos with the paintings of ever-changing scenery, so that your servants may work with delight.
All living creatures, your employees, have been made audaciously prominent with a fleshly dwelling illuminated with multi-colored lights of thoughts, affections, and determinations, yet you have made yourself very unimportant and your mansion of space obscure and invisible.
You work hardest of all, since you produce everything, but we have to work hard to fulfill the unending needs of our lives.
Why is it that, although it is you who made the life-giving grain, the vital breeze, the revealing light, the thirst-quenching water, the blood in our veins, and the heart-engine of our lives, yet you make us work very hard to get these things.
We work hard and chisel things to suit our pampered desires, and doing so we falsely imagine that we are the makers of everything.
The gigantic thermal, astral, and gravitational forces are all purring and bounding, running your factory of mystery.
We know that you, as the Boss of the Heavens are pretty busy, and have to keep yourself aloof from us, lest we encroach upon your valuable time, and pester you with many foolish questions, yet we ask you: Since you made us in your image, how long are you going to treat us as your children, as your employees?
We know that we have been very bad, rowdy, and intoxicated with ignorance, living in hovels of disorder and limitation, but O, Adorable Boss of the Blue, it is you who can mend our manners.
It is your unlimited power alone that can help our meager faculties and spur our battered will to make the effort to redeem ourselves.
We do not mind working for you, but do not let us be strangers.
Help us to know that we are all your children, equally loved by you. You have remained hidden for a long time. You must forthwith leave your business and attend to the most important business of awakening us.
