Volume 2 : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light
Volume 2 includes multiple books : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light.
Has prayer ‘by one who has not realised' no meaning? Does it ‘only strengthen the I-ness'?
These are two parts of the first of the two questions you would like me to answer.
Prayer is chiefly meant for one who has not realised and it is full of meaning. It has meaning for one who has realised also. For the realisation can be such that the realised soul can enter into and maintain its relation with the ultimate Reality—call it the Full, the Universal, the Divine I. The very fact that one prays implies confession of limitations as also recognition of the fact that there is something higher which one could approach with true humility for help and guidance.
This leads to the second part of the question. For the ego, what you call I-ness, is not strengthened by prayer; on the other hand it gains in humility, the very act of prayer cures it of its pettiness and when the prayer is intense and sincere, this I-ness certainly drops, but there is the great and eternal I behind and above that remains and rules. Truly has it been said’ The I of each and the great universal I are one’.17
21 March 1948
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