Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

PRAYERgled in the etiquette of polished speech, and thelove-stricken hearts that give vent to what iswithin them, the withered souls in the wastelandof the heart, lost to all sense of decency anddecorum as you would call it. Don’t you knowthat even the government does not impose anyland revenue on a land that is banjar or a waste.A martyr in God needs thy care and attention. Thereligion of love is quite different from the religionof set formalism and ritual, and for the lovers thereis no religion higher than that of God Himself.A jewel remains a jewel even if it has no hallmarkon it.”When Moses heard these words, he feltterrified and went to the jungle, found out theshepherd boy and said, “I have brought for youhappy tidings. God has accepted all your prayer,and your seemingly heretic words are as goodas those of a devout, and your devotion is thelight of your body. Whatever comes to you fromwithin, utter without any fear.” The boy repliedsmilingly, “O Moses, I have now far transcendedall the barriers of the flesh. Your rebuke wasenough to bring in me a great change. Now Iknow the Great One, and my condition is thatwhich no words can portray.”52