Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

APPENDIX PRAYER B DEFINED — SIMRANin it. Tennyson in his Memoirs gives an instanceof his experience of a waking trance he had,which could be interesting to know. He says:A kind of waking trance I have frequentlyhad quite up from boyhood, when I have beenall alone. This has generally come upon methrough repeating my own name two or threetimes to myself silently till all at once, as itwere out of the intensity of consciousnessof individuality, the individuality seemed todissolve and fade away into boundless beingand this not a confused state but the clearestof the clearest, the surest of the surest, thewisest of the wisest, utterly beyond words,where death was a laughable impossibility, theloss of personality (if so it were) seeminglybut the only true life. I am ashamed of myfeeble description, have I not said the state isutterly beyond words.This wakefulness Tennyson had by rememberinghis own name two or three times, quitecalmly; this was, as it were, dipping into hisown self, the soul. If we but dip in our source— God — by constant remembrance, losingour own selves into the whole, how muchgreater consciousness and wakefulness full ofintoxication we would have. We can well considerall this. Thank you for your patienthearing.KIRPAL SINGH229