Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

PREREQUISITES PRAYER DEFINEDPRAYERand behold, he saw within him the Light of Godand heard a sweet and kind voice assuring himthat all his prayers, sincere as they were, wereacceptable to God and He was greatly pleasedwith him for his offerings. On the other hand,when Moses went into his wonted meditation,he felt that God was sorely vexed with him forhaving driven a loving soul away from Him.God reprimanded him,You came into the world for uniting peopleunto Me, and not for separating thosewho were one with Me,and spake thus:“Everyone remembers Me in his own wordsand according to his own inner feelings. I haveaccepted all that the shepherd boy offered Mespontaneously in his innocent and unpolishedwords as they may appear to you, but I am highlydispleased with you for having driven himfrom his communing with Me. I am not affectedby words alone, for whatever they be, they donot in any way sanctify Me but purify the heartof him who utters them. I see not to the glossywords but to the heart and the inner sincerity thatlies therein behind the words, for it is from theabundance of heart that a man speaks, no matterin what broken and uncouth words he may giveexpression to his feelings. O Moses! there is aworld of difference between the learned, entan-51