3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

PRAYER: YOUR DIALOGUE WITH GOD 49distress and trouble, but when we escape therefrom webegin thinking that we wrought liberation by our own effortsand thereafter do not feel the need for prayer. Wemust guard against such serious pitfalls. Prayer in fact isneeded at every step. When in difficulty we must pray toescape therefrom. In distress, when all else fails, thethought of the Omnipotent Father gives solace to themind. When success be in sight, then pray that you maynot get elated and puffed up, and ask for God's Graceand bounty for without these we can never succeed. Afterthe fulfillment of our desires or riddance from difficulties,we must render thanks to the Almighty for Hisfavors. When God is the Loving Father and we cannot dowithout Him at all, prayer must become a part of ourvery being.How many people in the world truly pray to God forthe sake of God? The Sikhs have a prayer:To be with the Gurumukh, to have the companyof a Sadhu, to have the intoxication of theNanrn; This is the true afinity in which Th,yName is remembered in the heart.They pray also:Nanak's seruant wants only this happiness;Give me the company of a Sant.Midst the ever-changing phenomena of the world,there is but one unchangeable permanence and that isGod and God-in-action (the Holy Spirit, Kalma, Naamor Word), responsible for the creation, sustenance and