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Meditation
Support
How To Pray
Effectively
from Awaken
to Superconsciousness
by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)
It is the divine
energy we use, whether we ask for it specifically or direct the
energy ourselves. To put this principle to most effective use,
try sending energy out through the Spiritual Eye, the seat of
will. You will actually feel that energy as a force flowing out
through your forehead. Swami Kriyananda
I have asked
for God’s
help many times in my service to Him (or, as I put it, to Her).
Many people have called the responses to those prayers miraculous.
In every case, what made these “graces” possible was
the attraction of energy, by will power, from the surrounding universe.
Faith must be dynamic, not passive. By offering it to God, we focus
it better. But in any case, it is the divine energy we use, whether
we ask for it specifically or direct the energy ourselves. Half-hearted
prayer brings at best a half-hearted response. Effective prayer
demands that we offer it up with strong will power, with complete
confidence in the rightness of the outcome, and with an awareness
of the energy required for results.
To put this principle to most effective use, try sending energy
out through the Spiritual Eye, the seat of will. You will actually
feel that energy as a force flowing out through your forehead.
Another technique is to draw energy to your palms by rubbing them
together briskly, thirty to sixty times. Then raise the hands high
above the head, palms forward, and send the energy that you feel
tingling in the hands to those for whom you are praying. Feeling
the energy entering through the medulla and out through the palms,
chant AUM three to twelve times, holding each tone as
long as you can do so comfortably.
Remember, your mind is part of the Infinite Mind. The more you
unite your awareness to the divine consciousness, the more effective
your power will be. You alone can’t do it all.
The power of the will backed by Cosmic Will may be compared to
a violin string backed by the violin’s sounding board. If
the string is stretched between two points in space and the bow
is then drawn across it, the sound produced will be very thin.
But when the string is positioned on a violin, that same bow stroke
can fill a concert hall with sound.
Often, far more good is accomplished for others, and even for
ourselves, when we ask for nothing, but only offer ourselves up
to superconsciousness to do with us what it wills.
The important thing, here, is to realize that: 1) the human mind
is part of an infinitely greater consciousness; 2) the more one
offers one’s life up in service to God, the greater one’s
power to accomplish whatever one sets oneself to do; 3) this self-offering
must be dynamic, not static, and must summon up all one’s
will power and enthusiasm; and 4) an unspecific prayer will often
have greater results than praying for something definite. God knows
our true needs better than we do.
Dynamic Prayer
Whatever it is that you desire, formulate in your mind a very clear
image of it. Concentrate this image at the will center between
the eyebrows, and, calling on the energy of the universe to reinforce
your own energy, send a strong thought out through the Christ
center. Invest that thought with all the energy at your command.
Feel the magnetic power of that outgoing energy, rather than
concentrating too much on the particular object that you hope
to influence by your desire. Concentrate on your own ideal, rather
than on the state of things as they actually are. Above all,
make divine peace the channel for your magnetic power, that that
power work for harmony, or not at all. Make God your Partner
in every such undertaking, and offer the fruits of your self-effort
up to Him, seeking to please Him, and acting above all out of
love for Him.
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