SUBLIME-QUOTIDIAN

Quite early in life even at a tender age we learn that the distinction between the quotidian and the sublime is very small and often in our observations one transmutes to the other.
Nowhere is this more striking than when watching devotees in an Indian temple for the thrust and push to be ahead of the neighbours in presenting oneself before the deity is quite at variance with the sublimity in the stance and the earnestness of the prayer the devotee adopts; then when the guardians of the temple shove you aside so that another can take your place before the icon you are brought down to the earth with a resounding thud that tells you that the sublime resides in the quotidian.