BREATHING AND PRAYER

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BREATHING AND PRAYER

 

When breathing is accompanied with a sacred feeling of reverence and gratitude and love toward the great rationality, isn't this already a prayer?

 

Man must start the day with breathing exercises which will bring him renewal, purification and uplifting of his consciousness, and if he does the exercises consciously they will bring him liaison with the great rationality of the world. This is the explanation by the Master:

 

Breathing must be conscious. If your consciousness is not alert, the benefits which are hidden in Nature will not reach your lungs. From those people who are negligent in life and have not the least love toward God, God hides his benefits. And if He did give them benefits, they would not be able to use them. He who gets up early in the morning at daybreak and will connect himself with God, he will gain the qualities of God. Then he will have God's disposition and His benevolence. In this way man even in the early morning doing breathing exercises will connect himself with the great rationality of the world and he will be happy and bright all day.

 

Three times a day, morning, noon and evening, man has to breath consciously for ten or fifteen minutes and thank the great rationality. There are many people who think that books and money are everything and from these come happiness. They don't realize where real happiness comes from. The Master says the following:

 

Everyone should contemplate for ten to fifteen minutes morning and evening to answer the question of what the meaning of life is and why he was put on this earth, etc. Through thought man derives energy from Nature. In this way he will tunnel himself through difficult places. If you cannot answer some of the questions, be persistent. Continue three or four times until you become connected with the greatest and the mightiest of nature.

 

When you do conscious breathing, your consciousness has to be with God's divine thoughts. To do this you can use some sacred sentences. It is possible to take one deep breath, retain the air and exhale, while pronouncing certain words. At every inhaling man must accept one gift from the rational nature, but those who take must give. Why doesn't man, when he receives something precious, give something back from himself? In this way he will become a coworker in the building of a new life on Earth. The Master says:

 

When you accept the air and when you inhale and exhale, use the best of your mind. Retain the air for a certain time and afterwards expel it as you pronounce the following slowly: I want to think well, I want to feel well, I want to act well. What you want will be realized because breathing is powerful and a magic key to open the door to all possibilities.

 

There is another method, even more effective. Here it is:

 

Accompany the whole process of breathing - inhaling, retaining, exhaling - with prayer. When you inhale, retain and exhale, pronounce mentally certain sentences, even a whole prayer. These highly elevated thoughts occupy the consciousness and they become alive in you. We should perceive the inner sense which has a deep effect over the whole human being and thus awaken our hidden powers.

 

Breathing can be converted into a method for connecting with the great rationality in the world. It is very good for man, while inhaling, retaining and exhaling, to find a way of preparing conversation with the living Nature and being in contact with the Rational Beings of the world, since at this time he is very concentrated and in prayerful contemplation with the divine. The influence of concentration, contemplation and prayer is fortified when connected with deep breathing.