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The prayer starts as a ritual that we do in the beginning. The form of prayer that we offer is
"O Master, Thou art the real goal of human life. We are yet but slaves of wishes putting bar to our advancement. Thou art the only God and power to bring us up to that stage",
It is in the beginning, a ritual. The words 'Real goal' are uttered as a ritual' in the beginning. The prayer has not got into the stage of seeking, yet at the time of starting Sadhana. But as we progress; we find this is our basic concern. Then we have already come to a state of saying, we are capable of coming to this particular stage. There is nothing else we are to do. If the prayer is properly done, then nothing else remains to be done. That is what Master might say. But it won't apply to an abhyasi who starts meditation today. As is well understood, the Masters when they talk they talk to several people at several wavelengths, and let us accept what is relevant to us and proceed.
Then why should this particular prayer be "Thou art the only God and power to bring us up to that stage". What is that stage we are seeking? It might be understood as the perfect balance and calmness that was at the beginning of creation. That is the Reality, which is beyond time, where it is all calm, that is the serenity, that is the piety. We seek to get back to that hour of calmness, perfect balance. So in other words, Revered Babuji informs us that before creation, perfect balance prevailed all over and when it descended it brought with it the real essence, the condition of both were nearly the same. He says that veils after veils have begun to set in and we ourselves were the doers. The waves of the current rise the huge sea; Numerous drops join together to form a river. The origin was the same drop, the essence that came down. This is the purpose of prayer.
Through prayer we are seeking to get back to that perfect calmness and balance. This leads finally to the pointed attention on the Real. This is what we attain by prayer and that is the real essence of prayer. The pointed attention upon the Real may be taken as the essence of prayer. This is a state of consciousness; prayer is not just the four sentences or four words. No prayer starts like this first, it develops into an attitude of devotion to the Master, it becomes love to him and then finally it merges in a state where we don't know whether we are in prayer or not. It is a state of consciousness continuously maintained, that is how we live it. Great saints said "Tailadhara Avichinnavat", meaning that just as oil when we






























































































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