ON PRAYER

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Power of Prayer

 

The man of prayer, in and through his spiritual

concentration, really concentrates more and more parts of reality; he

condenses, as it were, the less concentrated sparks of the universe floating

around him, so as to reduce them to their essence. He can do so because he

has found the centre of reality which allows him really to concentrate, that

is, to centre his worlds into one single

centre. This can be done when the three centres, that of outer reality, that

of inner reality, and that of man himself, coincide. The result is harmony

and peace. Real prayer is always an act that embraces, all in one, the

Divine, the Human and the Cosmic. This is the essence of the Gayatri.

 

R Pannikker,

 

The Vedic Experience

What the Gayatri is, that indeed the earth is also, for it is

on the earth that this whole universe is established; it does

not extend beyond it. What the earth is, that indeed the

body in man is also, for on it these vital breaths are established; they do

not extend beyond it. What the body in man is, that indeed the heart within

man is also, for on it these vital breaths are established; they do not

extend beyond it. What is called Brahman, that indeed the space outside a

man is also; what the space within a man is, that indeed the space within

the heart is also.

 

Chandogya Upanishad II.12

 

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied

it is the most potent instrument of action.

 

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?

 

Corrie T Boom

 

The atmosphere at Al Gore's campaign headquarters in

Nashville jumped wildly from joy to despair and then to

prayer and tentative hope.

 

Eyewitness account,

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