The One Essential Thing

The Purpose Of Prayer All Prayer Rightly Offered Brings Us Closer To The Divine And Establishes A Right Relation With Him. How To Pray (“Rightly Offered” Means) With Humility And Sincerity. It Goes Without Saying That All Bargaining Spirit Is An Insincerity That Takes Away All Value To The Prayer. A Simple, Straight And Sincere Call And Aspiration From The Heart Is The One Important Thing And More Essential And Effective Than Capacities. How To Do Japa The Japa Is Usually Successful Only On One Of Two Conditions -If It Is Repeated With A Sense Of Its Significance, A Dwelling Of Something In The Mind On The Nature, Power, Beauty, Attraction Of The Godhead It Signifies And Is To Bring In To The Consciousness, -That Is The Mental Way; Or If It Comes Up From The Heart Or Rings In It With A Certain Sense Of Feeling Of Bhakti Making It Alive, -That Is The Emotional Way… There Is,Of Course, A Third Way, The Reliance On The Power Of The Mantra Or Name In Itself; But Then One Has To Go On Till That Power Has Successfully Impressed Its Vibration On Thee Inner Being To Make It At A Given Moment Suddenly Open To The Presence Or The Touch.