Meditation Practice

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VII. 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.

 

to be continued...