The Saint – Poet – Philosopher Tukaram derived the philosophy of omnipresent, omniscient, eternal God from Vedopanishads. But what is more important is that he assimilated and practised this philosophy with a total devotion towards Almighty in his personal, family and social life. In one of his Abhangs Saint Tukaram proclaims proudly that only the devotees of the Almighty have understood the real meaning of Vedas.
On 12th April 1961 the Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin completed one orbit of earth in his spaceship Vostok 1, and became the first human to journey into space. After a couple of days of this breaking news, another news flashed… Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the atheist Soviet government announced that on asking whether he saw God up there, Gagarin proclaimed “I went up to space, but I didn’t encounter God.”
Saint – Philosopher Tukaram has answered this question long ago in many of his Abhangs. Here is one such Abhang in which Saint Tukaram says that God is the principle that dwells in the mind and is all pervading, leaving no place in the universe vacant.

माझे देवरायाविण | रिते नाही कोठे स्थान ||१||
भक्तां अभक्तां अंतरी | पूर्णपणे माझा हरी ||२||
भक्तां प्रकाशितो ज्ञान | स्वयें आपुला आपण ||३||
अभक्तांचे देहीं आहे | काष्ठीं जेंविं अग्नि राहे ||४||
तुका म्हणे निरंतर | वर्तवीत नारी नर ||५||
                          ~ Saint Tukaram

हिंदी अनुवाद :

मेरे देवराय के बिना | सुना नहीं कोई ठिकाना ||१||
भक्तों अभक्तों में समाया | पूर्ण मेरा हरीराया ||२||
प्रकाशै वो भक्त को ज्ञान | स्वयं अपने आपन ||३||
अभक्तों के तन में वो है | काष्ठ में ज्यों अग्नि राहै ||४||
तुका कहे निरंतर | बरतावे नारी नर ||५||

There is no place (in the universe) without my Lord. No place (in the universe) is (thus) empty.
My Hari ( meaning : God : He who takes away evil) is there in totality within devotees and non-devotees.
He imparts self luminosity to devotees and they attain knowledge. Devotees get self enlightened, awakened to knowledge by His presence within.
He is there within (the body of) non-devotees (as well, but) like fire staying within a wooden log.(Fire is not seen vividly in a wooden log. That’s why wooden articles are used in everyday life safely. But fire / energy does exist in a wooden log, in a dormant state though. Once ignited with a spark the wooden log starts burning, thus revealing the inner fire / energy, which is released during the burning process. Similarly extra efforts are required to reveal the God dwelling within non-devotees.)
Tuka says that men and women (awakened to the eternal truth) have been always propagating this through their deeds.