Preposterous as it may sound, I thought that by putting it to music, a lot people would just be saying it without thinking about it."[5] Townsend's biographer Geoffrey Giuliano described the song as a "spiritual bullet right between the eyes, a masterpiece of poetics, devotion and the musical art."[3] The song was later included as the final track on Townshend's 2001 album The Oceanic Concerts.[6] A German language version of O' Parvardigar using a translation by an Austrian follower of Meher was recorded for the opening of a European Baba Centre but was never officially released.[4]