Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

PRAYERGod is all love. To think that it is because of ourforgiveness that He forgives us for trespasses,or else He would not do so, is to misunderstandHim and make a misuse of prayers as a meansfor doing more wrongs.The man of God, on the other hand, has atwo-fold plan of Dispensation. While grantingforgiveness for faults on the one hand heremonstrates severely against repetition. ‘Thusfar and no further,” is his admonition. “Go andsin no more,” was a familiar phrase with Christwhen he used to forgive the sinners. In this wayhe works out his purificatory process and thespirit is chiseled into a shape and form that maybe acceptable to God.Prayer per se cannot alter His Law of Dispensationnor help to reach Him. It is only the lovingand intense longing for God and strict obedienceto the commandments of the Godman that makea prayer a means leading Godward. Love, andnot loud prayers, is the cornerstone of God’sLaw of Redemption.If we lovingly depend upon the strong arm ofthe Godman, his Grace gushes out spontaneouslyfrom the fountain of love in him. “Reciprocity inlove” is proverbial indeed, and there is no limitto his saving Grace. Even the penalty that heimposes is tinted with rays of love, with no traceof rancor in it.56