Meditation Practice - VII

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Breath—Communication With God

 

Devotional Prayer may here be called as `PRAYER'; whereas

`Intuitional Prayer' may coincide roughly with CONTEMPLATION. Both

type of prayers lead to union with God. Such of them is more suited

to some Sadhakas than to others. According to time and need

suitability of these Prayers may change.

 

Any Prayer that limits itself to the thinking mind alone is not

prayer really but! at best, a preparation for prayer. Even among

Sadhakas there is no genuine personal communication that isn't at

least in some small degree heart communication, that does not contain

some small degree of emotion in it. If a communication, a sharing of

thoughts, is entirely and totally devoid of all emotion you can be

sure the intimate, personal dimension is lacking.

 

Here are some variations of the previous exercise more devotional

than intuitional. As the thought content in prayer is minimal—it will

easily move from the devotional to the intuitional, from the heart to

the heart.

 

Become aware of your breathing for a while. Now REFLECT presence of

God in the atmosphere all around you.... Reflect His presence in the

air you are breathing—BE CONSCIOUS OF HIS PRESENCE.... Notice what

you feel, when you become conscious of His presence in the air you

are breathing in and out....

 

Now express yourself to God non-verbally. Frequently, express a

sentiment through a look on a gesture .... Then again by breathing.

Express first of all, a great yearning for Him without using words,

even mentally, say to Him, " MY LORD, I long for You .... " Just by the

way breathe. You may express this by breathing in deeply, by

deepening your inhalation.

 

Now express another attitude or sentiment: ONE OF TRUST AND SURRENDER—

NO words—just through breath, " My LORD, I surrender myself entirely

to you .... " You may do this by emphasising your exhalation, by

breathing out each time as if you were sighing deeply. Each time you

breathe out feel yourself letting the whole of yourself go in God's

hand.

 

Then, after sometime, take up other attitudes before your LORD and

express these through your breathing such as: LOVE.... CLOSENESS....

and INTIMACY ADORATION.......... GRATITUDE.......... PRAISE.... if

you are tired of doing this, return to the beginning of this exercise

and just rest peacefully in the awareness of God all around you and

in the air you are breathing in and out.... Then, if you tend to get

distracted, fall back on second part of the exercise and express

yourself to God non-verbally once more.