"The Prayer" Beinsa Douno
"Many people ask if it is possible to live without praying. It is not. The prayer is an internal human necessity.
If the prayer becomes an internal necessity for you, you will pray naturally, without any force, without an external force. For you the prayer is as natural as feeding, breathing, feeling and thinking are.
Why should we pray? Paul the Apostle said once, “Be consistent in praying”, and Jesus said, “Be alert and pray”. The prayer is of threefold nature. It is equal to breathing. One should pray so that the soul to breathe and perceive things. The prayer is needful for the soul. It is the contemplation of the highest feelings. Through the prayer we see that a child is praying. It is an appeal and is as needful for the soul as breathing is. Humans need air much more than food. It is proven that a human may stay without air for 25 minutes at most and if we equalize the air with the prayer, which is food for the soul, we see that it is of great significance to it.
If people of today did not know how to pray, they would have lost even the little that they have preserved today. Everything good, everything great and beautiful, which is persevered by them, is thanks to the praying spirit that works in their souls. So, thanks to the prayer, though not so correct as it is in modern humanity, still something beautiful has remained and something new is being acquired. Thanks to the prayer, we become conduits of the sublime powers and noble means, on which the entire human race rests. The soul needs an internal spiritual food that can be provided only through a prayer. If one stops praying, life disappears. The prayer is a great thing. It is not expressed by chattering, by whispering of words. When you learn to pray, your life will become worth living.
The reason for our misfortunes is that we do not pray. Our contact with God brings inexhaustible riches. The Divine blessing and strengthening of the spirit come through it.
I would like you to pray constantly for you to be in contact with God. Only in this way, that influence from above will come to you. Then you will feel that Divine ennoblement and strengthening. Only when one prays, his body strengthens, as well as his feelings and his thoughts. One, who prays, cannot have a cruel heart. He can be delicate by structure, but his body is healthy, his thoughts are stable and his feelings - strong. It is not possible us to be in communion with God and be feeble.
If one’s prayer is pure, deep, it is always accepted. God does not make difference between souls. Jesus said to his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Knowing that the Spirit of Jesus lives forever and has power and authority, do not be discouraged! You can always call upon Him and receive His help. Everyone has the power of Jesus in him. One just has to work on himself to develop that power. Once people develop that power in themselves, they will know what God is, what the Divine principle in humans is.
There is nothing, about which man has asked God and which hasn’t been fulfilled. And it happens just when it is needed.
One has to be bearer of Divine thoughts, must be convinced that every thought that he sends in the world is Divine and he must not think about the consequences. One must study the Word and practice praying and contemplation simultaneously. This is the path and one should not worry. Open your heart and soul. The light will penetrate there and the comprehension will come."
When people don't pray and awake Divine will, they shouldn't blame God for worldly events, wars, massacres , etc.nothing to do with God , also not a proof that God doesn't exist
"Left or Right.
Liberal or Conservative.
Democrat or Republican.
And don’t mess with Mister In-Between.
The Left-Right, them-or-us, all-or-nothing dichotomy is what Philosophers call a false dilemma.
That’s when you claim that there are only two options, and it’s an either/or choice.
“Either you’re with us, or you’re with the terrorists.”
Well, pardon me, but I don’t have to be with you OR with “the terrorists” (assuming for the moment that there’s a difference between those two things).
There may be an infinite range of choices between those two extremes. Indeed, they're almost always is — and I say “almost” only because, although I don’t know of an exception, I accept the theoretical possibility that there might be one, and, no, whatever you’re thinking isn't
Anyone who takes a close look at governments around the world and over time will discover that even though so-called “communism” and fascism are supposed to be polar opposites on the left-right scale, in practice, they look a whole lot alike. Indeed, almost indistinguishable. In both cases, someone you don’t know has decided to tell you how you must live your life, and your job is to shut up and do what you’re told, or ELSE. No critical thinking is required. In fact, it’s not allowed.
The Right and the Left may fight about which of them is going to get to tell you what to do, but NEITHER of them is arguing that you should decide for yourself.
I submit that the left-right paradigm we are sold is a scam.
It doesn’t matter which tie you buy; your money is still going into the pocket of the same salesman.
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Using this model, government control — whether you want to call it communism, fascism or any-other-f*cking-ism — is all on the same end of the scale. Individual freedom is at the opposite end.
Everything in between is some kind of compromise, and there are innumerable possibilities.
THERE IS A SMALL DOORWAY IN YOUR SOUL, – SMALLER THAN A MOTE OF DUST IN
A SUNBEAM.
ONE WHO WALKS THROUGH IT MAY TRAVEL TO DISTANT LANDS YET NEED NOT
LEAVE HIS OWN HOUSE.
HE MAY EXPERIENCE THE MOST ANCIENT OF DAYS THIS VERY DAY.
BUT ONLY A FEW CAN MAKE THEMSELVES SMALL ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO PASS CONSCIOUSLY THROUGH THIS TINY
DOORWAY...
Does small enough refers to ego dissolution ??
I am wondering if the majority of the population is still at the street level?
The Shankaracharya describes the Law of Seven with the example of the quest for Self-realisation as an ascending octave that goes by the triad of refinement. The time scale of the whole progression may be a decade, a lifetime or a few moments:
Do Life at street-level.
Re Good Intention, the Right Impulse, the arising of the right desire. (Only some are here)
Mi Decision: This is the stage where rationally the person makes up their mind and can go further. There is no doubt about the Way, intention and conviction are established.
Interval: filled by the grace of the teacher, or directly by the Absolute.
Fa Effort: Certain particles of fine matters now form in the organism which cause the striving for sattva.
Sol The Pull of the Way: where sattva predominates. Influences from the Way are pulling away from the outside world of sensory impressions and pleasures, so that these begin to lose some of their power.
La Insight, which denotes that the person starts seeing themselves and other things as they really are. They get right values for everything, realising things as they are, how they are constituted and their actual properties.
Si Abundance, which is the stage where the outward pull is nearly gone, and the person is filled with abundance of sattva, divine love and happiness.
Interval: filled directly by the Absolute.
Do Turiya is the stage of the fully Realised man (or woman), when he knows himSelf; he knows all that can be known; he knows how to do, and whatever he does is just the right thing – right actions, right feeling, right thought – everything all combined.
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