Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

PRAYERWith a predestined plan one comes into theworld,O Tulsi! with all this, the mind does notaccept it.Dame Nature now gets ready for the royalreception of the Prince of the Universe, providingmilk in the mother’s breast, shelter in the mother’slap, and an army of attendants to attend to hisminutest needs. The Powers of Nature mobilizeall their forces to claim the prince-child as theirown. But as the child grows and develops intoadolescence and begins to feel the life-impulsesurging in him; the world, as a foster mother,claims him as her own, and he fondly clingsto her and her gifts, forgetting his native andprenatal home in heaven.Heaven lies about us in our infancy,Shades of the prison-house begin to close uponthe growing boy.Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;Yearning she hath in her own natural kind,And even with something of a mother’smind,and no unworthy aim.The homely nurse doth all she can,To make her foster child, her inmate Man,forget the glories he hath known,And that imperial palace whence he came.WORDSWORTH74