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Thought for the Day:
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" Mentally light millions of candles everywhere in the whole
cosmos to the Glory of God. Fill the entire space with luminous candles.
Bow down before this wonderful Divinity, which is the Soul of your
soul."
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How to Pray
Prayer for
Rapid Growth and Evolution
Question:
'I have no book
of prayers, and I don't know what prayer to use. Can you, revered
Swamiji, give a prayer for use?'
Answer:
Pray from the heart.
Your heart's prayer is the best prayer. Let your heart voice thus:
'Lord, You are now with me, yet I am unable to see you. Grant me
Grace, empower me to behold You. You are my Light. You are my Father.
You are my eternal Mother. You are the Breath of my breath. You are
everything. From all sides, at all times, You are watching me, seeing
me, blessing me. You are in the children, in the creatures great and
small. You are everywhere. Why don't You reveal Yourself to me?
'Lord, lead me,
guide me, purify me, render me peaceful, wise, strong, noble,
saintly. As You are in me, express Yourself through me. Let me be a
channel for the flow of Your Nature and Qualities. Not my
personality, but Your Personality which is full of Perfection, finds
Its expression through me. I don't want my will to be done, for my
will is imperfect, exposed to wrong impulse, full of limitations. Thy
Will is wonderful, perfect, omnipotent. Let Thy Will be done through
me.
'Lord, my
intelligence makes many mistakes. What it thinks to be the right
thing is often to be not so. Let Thy Intelligence which is omniscient
guide my intelligence along the right and fruitful lines. My heart is
limited in its love; sometimes I love people who are beneficial to
me, and cease loving them when they no more serve my interests. Let
Thy Love which is unconditioned rule my heart. My best plans to
protect my interests are not free from unforeseen difficulties.
Anything can easily burden me with cares and worries. Let Thy Wisdom,
Thy Light, Thy Care, Thy Grace, conduct my life and preserve me in
the experience of Thy Peace, Thy Power, Thy Happiness.
'Look, O Lord, there
Your sun shines. Adorations to You, God, in that sunshine. Adorations
to You, God, in the form of all these men, women and children.
Adorations to You in the form of all those that are near and dear to
me. Adorations to You, God, in the form of all that is wonderful,
great, grand, sublime, inspiring, sustaining, helping, guiding.
Adorations to You, God, in the form of the breath without which I
cannot live.'
Thus, through such
small attempts at pouring out your heart in spontaneous prayer, put
yourself in touch with the Lord's abundance, here, there, everywhere,
at all times. Nothing that you say to God is uttered in vain, for He
is all-hearing and infinite creative Intelligence, Power, Grace,
Fullness. Many are the blessings of such a prayer. The psychological,
emotional, psychic, spiritual, material, physical results of such
prayers are priceless, and they add rapidly and immensely to the stature
of your inner spiritual growth and evolution.
The Language
of God is the Same Everywhere
Question:
What happens to
those who turn their hearts to God?
Answer:
Their hearts flower
and bloom in love to such an extent that they begin to converse with
birds like St. Francis. They begin to speak words of wisdom and
power. Their lives are most fruitful. Their presence is a joy and a
healing, a blessing and an enrichment. They are the real knowers of
the meaning of life: they are the real enjoyers of the full value of
life.
The human eyes and
the intelligence which sees through them are not able to see God, but
God is seeing us all right. The human ears are not able to hear God,
but God is hearing us all right. The human heart feels God is
somewhere away in the clouds, but God is already there within its own
inner chambers. When intelligence is rendered pure and luminous, and
lit up with the light of the inner divine Being, man sees God as our
physical eyes see the sun, the moon, the trees, the seas, the light.
These are the wonderful truths that you discover as your entire inner
nature is uplifted and refined. The knowledge of the fundamental
spiritual truths and realities comes to you automatically. The
language of God is the same everywhere.
Go on developing
your love for the Divine. When you see beautiful fruits and flowers,
mentally offer them to God, the supreme Creator, who is everywhere
and watching everything. And then, what happens? God, who is
all-seeing, at once watches, registers and responds to your simple
act. In consequence His Light and Grace shine upon your countenance.
He increases your inner purity, your inner peace, strength,
happiness, and your prosperity. He develops your faith, heightens
your capacities, and renders your intelligence intuitive, your soul
inspired. He increases your sense of the divine Presence. He makes
you do good things. He prompts you to give a contribution to good
works. He inspires you to serve and to sacrifice. As you advance, God
pours His own Light, Love, Grace, through you to all creation.
Towards the
Divine
Our movement towards
the Divine is nothing other than a grand growth of our love, our
wisdom, our strength, our sweetness, our brilliance, our perfection.
As a result of this
turn towards the all-seeing, all-beautiful, all-peaceful,
all-luminous, all-perfect Divinity, many of the higher qualities
resident in our inner spiritual being are simultaneously unfolded
into our outer life.
Perfection
Turn all thy life
into divine Light. Let thy speech flow from the Honey within. Render
thy energies into divine Power, and convert all of thy inner being
into divine Perfection.
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