Prayer: Its Nature and Technique

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0918224101 ISBN 13: 9780918224101

Publisher: Sk Pubns, 1982

This is the most specific and helpful manual of mystical prayer written in modern times. All forms and aspects of prayer are discussed, from the most elementary and and dualistic to the ultimate stage of "praying without ceasing" where all life is a prayer. Its author, a great contemporary saint, draws upon the knowledge he has gained both theoretically, as a lifelong student of comparative religion and practically, at the feet of a great Master. The result is a book that glows with the love and peace of its author. At the end of the book are collected prayers from religious traditions, including many from the Adi Granth and other Oriental scriptures largely unknown in the West. From the author's introduction: The secret of a successful prayer lies not so much in the words we use, nor in the time we devote to it, nor in effort that we put into it, as it lies in the concentrated attention that we may give it at the seat of the soul so as to make it soulful. The most natural form for a fruitful prayer is the yearning of a soul without the agency of words, oral or mental, with the tongue of thought. A prayer like this generates and releases such a fund of spiritual energy that all the Cosmic powers are attracted and combine together, shaping out things as best as possible.