Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

APPENDIX PRAYER B DEFINED — SIMRANbreath which, being endless continuation, hasno knots and needs no reversal at all.Further He says, “On continuous fruitlessrevolution, rosary cried out quarreling, ‘Whydo you turn me round and round?’ Turn mentalrosary should you want a Master guide. Tellingbeads and counting the turns on fingers, Holloware such deeds of merit, performed withwandering mind. How can God be found withan insensate mind?”Kabir says, “When doing all ablutions orpurificatory exercises like telling the beads,etc., your mind is not still, what is the goodof doing them after all? While you are tellingthe beads and counting the number of rosaryrevolutions performed on your fingers, themind like an unbridled colt is wandering about.All such deeds are, therefore, of no avail. Youcan meet God through a living Master onlywhen, according to His instructions, you learnto bridle the mind and turn it the other way”(i.e., inward and upward from its usual wayof looking at things outward and downward).The practice of concentration and focusing ofthe mind can be achieved only through Simran asenjoined by a Master Soul and by nothing else.Kabir Sahib further presses the point. “Invain is the rosary that loosens not the mindknot. A heaven veritable lies in the Master’s225