Prayer. The Master’s prayers are above all beautiful.

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PRAYER

 

The Master’s prayers are above all beautiful.

 

The Master Beinsa Duno said much about prayer. He expressed himself through deep mystical experiences and cast light on it from every side. Whole books could be written about what the Master said about Prayer. He also gave formulae, short prayer-like sentences, which he introduced into his sermons, as thoughts or conclusions, as a theme for meditation after the sermon, or in a series of talks with a particular formula.

 

The Master’s prayers are, above all, beautiful. They fill one’s consciousness like some imagery of experience, linked with an awakened higher consciousness, with the experience of the Teacher.

 

In the Master’s school, prayer, contemplation and meditation occupy the first place. Prayer is joined with the talk as a unified experience, and it can be said that it is left to echo in one’s consciousness and remains there for ages.

 

Not the long prayer, not the whisper of words, but experience, positive thought, sent upwards, the tender appeal of the soul for help and the readiness to serve God, that is the prayer of the pupils. He says that if you are very weary, or have no time to say a special prayer in the evening, then say:

 

Lord be merciful to me.

 

I shall do Thy will.

 

Or the lovely prayer of the mother:

 

Lord, bless my child. Guard him from all ills

 

and help him to develop all the gifts and capabilities

 

which Thou hast laid in his soul.

 

This the Master said when his own child was born. But this prayer we say every day for our children.

 

And let the mother not forget:

 

When her child is born, she must smile at him. Then the child will be happy. Not with frowning brows, but with a smile mothers from henceforth must greet their children on earth.

 

And something else, our prayer must be accompanied with a song: then, says the Master, an angel accepts your prayer and carries it to God.

 

The prayers of the White Brotherhood are accompanied with song, — a song-prayer, prayerful songs.

 

There was no more beautiful moment and experience than when the prayer-song floated from the Prayer summit ofRila, where the Master spoke. The sun slowly and triumphantly rose. A valley like something from a fairy-tale dream opened below the mountain. From that valley the sun would take its journey upwards. And the pupils sang “God is Love” ...

 

The songs of the Master are prayers.

 

Because they express the Word. In a most beautiful form they express the laws of Love, Joy, Light and Peace.

 

They are in the brightest ascending scale! The new music of the New Mankind. The song-prayer of the disciple:

 

Phir Phyour Phen Tao bi aournen Tao bi aoumen Tao bi aoumen

 

His most powerful prayer expressing the rules, the ten laws, the Master called THE GOOD PRAYER. He set it also as a task. For one year the pupils had to meditate daily upon it, to penetrate into the laws, to understand its universal content, in which man speaks with God ...

 

What is it, asks the Master. It is the heavenly singing. Prayer is an inaccessible internal art.

 

When he spoke about the Lord’s prayer “Our Father”, the Master gave it the following interpretation, or this is one of his interpretations:

 

As the prayer begins:

 

“Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so too on earth,”

 

This means:

 

Our Father, who are upmost in my mind, may Thy Light enter my mind, so that I can accept it.

 

May Thy Will be in my every deed, in my thought, in my feeling, in all my deeds.

 

May Thy Will be present in my breathing, in my circulation, to send the blood throughout the whole body to feed it, to serve Thee with Joy and Love.

 

Brotherly meetings and sermons always ended with “Our Father.” In his Talks the Master speaks long and in detail about Prayer, that “Communion with God” as he names one of his sermons devoted to Prayer.

 

With beautiful and profound definitions, He often gives a heavenly, new definition to Prayer. They sound unusual.

 

The Master gives powerful, meaningful explanations, full of deep mystical meaning.

 

The formulae are powerful spiritual aphorisms, condensed Light, infinitely powerful and powerful words, to be precise — formulae for health, for Joy, for Contemplation; they are also a moral law.

 

Only the Enlightened Path of Wisdom leads to Truth. In Truth is concealed Life.

 

With a formula the disciple defends himself:

 

Lord protect us with thy white Light. Defend us with Thy diamond wall.

 

With a formula which is made of movement, a magnetic stream from the crown of the head, the milfoil slowly pours through the body; with both hands the Blessing and Joy from on high are brought down; the Panevritmia concludes:

 

May God’s peace prevail and may God’s Joy shine forth and God’s happiness glow in our hearts.

 

(Da prebude Bozhiyat Mir i da lzgree Bozhiyata Radost i Bozhieto Veselie v nashite surdtsa)

 

Or at the end of a sermon the Master gives the formula:

 

Christ is the man of Bounteous Power.

 

Christ is the man of Bounteous Faith.

 

Christ is the man of Bounteous Love.

 

These formulae are thrice repeated. They enter into the understanding, and the soul stores them away in its treasury for future ages.

 

The Master also gave a formula as a short grace before meals. It is spoken three times, with open palms thankfully directed to the blessing of the good and its deep meaning:

 

God’s Love bears plenteous and full Life.

 

At the end of the meal, it is also spoken three times. How beautifully it sounds in the Bulgarian tongue! This is a tongue holy and musical, rich and ancient. This formula should be pronounced in the language of the Master:

 

God’s Love bears plenteous and full Life, — three times in Bulgarian:

 

Bozhiyata Lyoubov nosi izobilen i pulen zhivot! (Божията Любов носи изобилен и пълен живот!)

 

Its efficacy and power, pronounced in the Bulgarian language, is inexpressibly powerful.

 

And how would a formula sound which evokes the Light!

 

Without fear, without darkness, in boundless Love.

 

This formula shakes the depths of consciousness. And we, as it were, see the Light as the foundation of the World, when the Creator said:

 

Let there be Light, and it became Day.

 

A special word: that is the spiritual name and meaning of the Light is contained in the Bulgarian word VIDELINA (ВИДЕЛИНА). In the Gospel of John it says in the Bulgarian translation precisely this:

 

And the Light shone in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

 

I VIDELINATA SVETI V TUMNINATA I VIDELINATA YA NE OBZE. (И виделината свети в тъмнинате и виделината я не обзе.)

 

Of the first words of that Gospel, the Master made a prayer-song: In the Beginning was the Word —V NACHALO BE  SLOVOTO (В началото бе Словото)