Answered Prayers

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Your Greatest Necessity Is God

 

Between the eyebrows is the door to heaven. This centre (spiritual eye) in the

brain is the seat of will. When you concentrate deeply there and calmly will,

whatever you are willing shall come about. So never use your will for evil

purposes. To will harm to someone intentionally is a grave misuse of your

God-given power. If you find your will going in the wrong direction, stop! Not

only is it a waste of your divine energy, it will be the cause of your losing

that power; you will not be able to employ it even for good purposes.

 

Determine honestly whether or not your prayer is legitimate. Do not ask God for

things that are quite impossible in the natural order of life. Ask only for true

necessities. And know the difference between " necessary nececcities " and

" unnecessary necessities " . The best way to cure yourself of desires for

" unnecessary necessities " is to reason them away. Dreaming of big buildings used

to be a hobby of mine, but that interest is gone now. I have plenty of them, and

all the hreadaches that accompany their maintenenace! Ownership is a worrisome

responsibility. Cut out desires for needless possessions. Concentrate only on

your real needs.

 

Your great necessity is God. He will give you not only your " necessary

necessities, " but your " unnecessary necessities " as well. He will satisfy your

every desire when you are one with Him. Your wildes dreams will come true.

 

When I was a little boy in India I so much wanted a pony, my mother would not

allow me to have one. Some years later, after I had started my school for boys

in Ranchi, I brought home a horse for our use. One morning I found she had given

birth to a colt. Just what I had wanted in my childhood! Many such experiences

have come to me. Long ago, wh ile I was traveling in Kashmir, I saw this

building (Self-Realisation Fellowship International Headquarters atop Mount

WAshington in Los Angeles - Paramahansaji's vision of it occurred around 1913)

in a vision. Years later, when I came to Los Angeles and saw this place, I

recognised it as the building in my vision, and knews that God intended it to be

ours.