The Master on Prayer

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THE MASTER ON PRAYER

 

 

WHAT IS PRAYER? Communion with God, with the First Cause of things.

 

PRAYER IS A DEEP INTERNAL PROCESS PRAYER IS OUT OF TIME WHAT IS PRAYER?

 

Prayer is a preface and introduction to Love. Prayer is nothing other than a linking of the soul with God, in which a man puts right his mistakes and gives thanks for all the blessings which he receives every day.

 

WHEN A MAN PRAYS,

 

he links himself with bright, elevated beings, who listen to him and record his every word.

 

WHAT KIND OF PRAYER IS THAT.

 

 which is filled with complaints and grumbling against fate?

 

HOW SHALL YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED

 

A REPLY TO YOUR PRAYER

 

By that quiet inner joy, by that inner light which will help you to solve certain internal questions.

 

PRAYER ENHANCES THE VIBRATIONS

 

of the human aura. With this he becomes immune to surrounding lower influences.

 

THROUGH PRAYER

 

man protects himself from the alarms and terrors of the world.

 

WHEN PEOPLE ARE PRAYING, DO YOU PRAY TOO!

 

THE PRAYER OF A SINGLE MAN IS POWERFUL ENOUGH

 

TO REPEL THOUSANDS OF ILLS.

 

IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A DIFFICULT POSITION

 

whatever it may be, turn to God with all your soul and spirit. Do not think that you can buy yourself free with a candle or two.

 

THE STRONG PRAYER

 

is able to fend off all of a man’s ills.

 

YOU MUST WORK UPON YOURSELF

 

so as to experience the power of prayer.

 

THERE IS A WAY BY WHICH

 

each one of you must teach himself precisely how to pray.

 

A MAN CAN GAIN NOTHING IF HE DOES NOT PRAY

 

PRAY,

 

so that more light may come into your consciousness.

 

ASK OF GOD THAT HE LIVES IN YOU AND TO MANIFEST HIS LOVE THROUGH YOU. PRAYER IS NECESSARY FOR THE BRINGING DOWN OF HIGH ENERGY FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD. GOD DOES NOT LIKE US TO PRAY FOR TRIVIAL THINGS. Trivial things are those, the fulfilment of which depends on ourselves.

 

IF YOU WANT ANYTHING OF GOD,

 

ask for life, ask for knowledge, ask for freedom, but never ask for money.

 

When a man asks something of God, he must ask for the smallest things but at the same time the most necessary things.

 

WHEN A MAN PRAYS, HIGHER BEINGS ARE PRESENT.

 

SOMEBODY SAYS THAT HE PRAYS BUT THERE IS NO ANSWER.

 

The reason is that his consciousness is not awake.

 

PRAYER TO GOD RENEWS

 

AND REJUVENATES THE PHYSICAL BODY ITSELF.

 

BECAUSE ENERGIES REACH IT.

 

REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING TRUTH:

 

there is nothing more noble in life than the man of prayer.

 

DO NOT FORGET the significance and necessity of prayer.

 

IN INTERCOURSE WITH GOD,

 

IF MANY PEOPLE HAVE UNITY OF SPIRIT,

 

THEIR PRAYER IS ACCEPTED.

 

But if a single man has unity of spirit, then his Prayer is accepted.

 

When many people pray for the same thing, then their Prayer is accepted.

 

WHEN A JUST MAN PRAYS ALONE, THEN

 

his prayer too is accepted.

 

WHEN HE PRAYS,

 

a man links himself with all who are praying.

 

A MAN CANNOT PRAY IN AN UNCLEAN PLACE.

 

Prayer must only be offered up in a clean place.

 

WHEREVER YOU MAY BE,

 

IN WHATEVER POSITION YOU ARE,

 

PUT ASIDE HALF AN HOUR OR AN HOUR

 

FOR THOUGHTS ABOUT GOD,

 

Thus the consciousness is widened.

 

A MAN WHO PRAYS FOR A LONG TIME,

 

who prays for years,

 

HE COLLECTS ENERGY TO BE A HELP TO HIM.

 

ONLY THAT MAN WHO LIVES IN THE LAW OF LOVE

 

ALWAYS HAS THE DISPOSITION FOR PRAYER.

 

In the life of a loving man, everything is prayer.

 

PRAYER IS THE MOST HOLY ACT,

 

WHICH IS A POSSESSION ONLY OF THE SOUL

 

WHOEVER WISHES HIS PRAYER TO BE ACCEPTED

 

must know the law of sacrifice.

 

THE PRAYER OF MAN

 

must contain something special in himself.

 

HE WHO IS NOT IN HARMONY WITH HIMSELF AND WITH HIS NEIGHBOUR

 

cannot receive an answer to his prayer.

 

THE BEST METHOD OF PRAYER IS FOR A MAN TO BE STANDING.

 

You will stand upright and will look neither to the ground nor upwards, but straight forward, in a direction at right angles to the forehead.

 

THE AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS BEGINS WITH PRAYER.

 

WORKING, TOO, IS PRAYING.

 

The good man is always working, that means that he is always praying.

 

Many think that prayer is not work.

 

Prayer is an important work!

 

It can bring much profit to the man.

 

THERE IS NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE PRAYER OF THE MAN WHOSE CONSCIOUSNESS IS AWAKENED.

 

ONLY HE CAN PRAY CONSTANTLY

 

who lives under the law of Love, that is if in God’s Kingdom.

 

IN THE LIFE OF THE LOVING MAN EVERYTHING IS PRAYER. PRAYER IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

 

WHAT IS PRAYER?

 

It is the music of Heaven.

 

PRAYER IS A HIDDEN INTERIOR ART

 

WHEN A MAN PRAYS,

 

he talks with the beings of the Kingdom of God.

 

PRAYER IS DIRECTING ONE’S HEART TOWARDS GOD

 

and concentrating the mind so as to be able to receive certain Divine currents. These currents must pass through your heart, so that you can feel them, and then can you pray.

 

WHEN THE MAN OF THE NEW WAY SEES

 

that somebody is sinful, he says nothing to him, nor passes judgment, but, deep within himself, prays for him.

 

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRAYER CONSISTS IN THIS,

 

that a man thinks about God as the source of life.

 

Whatever the physical duties of man represent, Prayer represents something similar for man’s spiritual life.

 

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF SECRET PRAYER?

 

It remains cut off from the telephone wires linked with the world.

 

MEDITATION AND SECRET PRAYER ARE NOT THE SAME THING!

 

You yourselves can find the difference.

 

SECRET PRAYER IMPLIES

 

raising the mind of a man towards God

 

SECRET PRAYER IMPLIES

 

RAISING UP THE GLANCE OF MAN TOWARDS THE SUN THE SOURCE OF LIFE.

 

TO ENTER INTO YOUR SECRET CHAMBER,

 

that means to enter into your own virgin soul. Then you will understand the meaning of things and why you live.

 

SOME MEN THINK THAT YOU CAN MANAGE WITHOUT PRAYER. PRAYER IS BREATHING.

 

I CONSIDER PRAYER THE BREATHING OF THE SOUL.

 

YOU CAN PRAY EVEN WHEN YOU SLEEP,

 

and when you awake from sleep. You will pray even when you work and when you rest.

 

IF SOME MAN THINKS

 

that he can manage without prayer, contemplation and meditation, he is on the wrong path.

 

PRAYER IS THE MOST POWERFUL ACTION IN THE HUMAN LIFE.

 

It condenses into one the thoughts, feelings and will of man.

 

So powerful is prayer!

 

It works miracles.

 

AT THE TIME OF PRAYER

 

a man must feel himself alone,

 

without any kind of appointments and links,

 

as if he had come to this world for the first time.

 

At this moment nobody must exist for him save only God.

 

WHEN PRAYING, A MAN EMERGES WITH HIS HIGHER CHARACTERISTICS OUTSIDE,

 

while the lower ones remain behind on the ground.

 

That is, at prayer there is a kind of emanation.

 

WHEN A MAN PRAYS AND OPENS THE BIBLE,

 

the reading is not by chance but is sent from above.

 

A MAN MUST PRAY THUS:

 

teach me, Lord, how to apply the Divine Teaching.

 

Whatever the weather outside, go out in the evening to observe the heavens.

 

Send up to God a little prayer of a few words, but let it be steeped in Love.

 

IT IS GOOD FOR A MAN TO REALISE THAT HE OCCUPIES A PLACE IN THE MIND OF GOD.

 

PRAYER IS A WAY OF SOLVING THE MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEMS

 

Often the mind of man piles up spare energy,

 

and if he knows how to pray, he will cope with that energy.

 

PRAYER AND CONTEMPLATION ARE THE EFFORT

 

OF THE SOUL TO CLIMB TO A HIGH PLACE.

 

Thence comes an influx of mental energy, and this assists the work of the conscious human life.

 

TO PRAY AND TO CONTEMPLATE MEANS TO SEND IN YOUR REPORT TO THAT GREAT CENTRE FROM WHICH YOU CAME.

 

ABOUT WHAT WILL YOU REPORT?

 

About the work which you have finished.

 

THE LAW OF PRAYER IS THE SAME AS THE LAW OF EATING.

 

When a man goes without food, he feels a certain lack.

 

When the soul goes without prayer, it also feels a lack.

 

PRAYER IS THE INTERNAL NEED OF THE SOUL.

 

PRAYER IS REALITY AND NOT A SHADOW.

 

What gives power to the mind, the heart and the soul, at a given moment, comes from beyond the ordinary consciousness.

 

PRAYER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORK.

 

How beautiful it is, when you rise in the morning, to talk with the Eternal One ...