"Morning Prayers"

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Namaste, All Advaitins,

Since Swami Dayananda Saraswati has no objection in posting his works or parts

of his works in this Group, I am giving below Section I of his "Morning

Prayers". If Advaitins find it absorbing, I can post te other sections one by

one.

Warm Regards and HariOm

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“As a limited individual, I invoke the Lord’s help, the Lord’s grace, by an act

of prayer. Being based on one’s will, prayer is an action. It is an act invoking

grace as well as a simple autosuggestion. As I sit in meditation, relaxed, I

offer a prayer to the Lord whom I invoke in any given form, in any given name.

 

I pray:

 

‘Oh Lord, may I have the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change; may

I have the will and effort to change what I can; and may I have the wisdom to

know the difference between what I can and cannot change’.

 

I cannot change my childhood, my parentage, my entire past. What has happened in

my life I cannot change. What has happened has happened. I have nothing to

regret. I have no reason to be sad, depressed, or angry. I drop my anguish for

what has happened. I accept gracefully whatever has happened in my life.

 

There are a lot of things that I can change, that I can repair. I seek the

strength of will and ability to make proper adequate efforts to change. I do not

waste my time trying to change what I cannot change; nor do I waste my time

putting up with unhealthy situations that I can change. The difference between

the two – what I can and cannot change – is not easy to distinguish. It takes

wisdom for which I again invoke your grace.

 

‘Oh Lord, may I enjoy, have, the maturity to accept gracefully which I cannot

change, the will and effort to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the

difference.’

 

I am just awake, alive to what happens at this moment. I lay down my will, my

choice. I am just awake to the moment; moment to moment my being aware of the

moment does not fluctuate. My being aware of the moment is an abiding, lasting,

ever-present fact. My being aware is not in fits and starts. It is a presence, a

presence which is always present.’

 

What I am aware of at this moment is unique. The object changes, even these

words are never the same. At this moment, a given word, a sentence, a sound, or

an object changes. My being aware of what happens at this moment is not by

choice. I am aware because I am an awareful presence. Free from memory, I am an

awareful presence.

Om, Om, Om”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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