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Source of Grace
Where does grace come from? It is a common belief that Grace is a flow of light from a God sitting some where in this universe or outside of it (Heaven?). But a matured mind which is backed-up by the intellect this fanciful idea will not be accepted. The Vedic tradition does not believe in God sitting elsewhere other than the "Self". If God is everywhere, then the closest distance of God should be your own Self. Therefore Grace also must come from within. We understand that pure awareness is the very source of Grace too.
The immediate question that arises is that , if grace is within, then why is that every one does not grace all the time. Some one who thinks about God or any super natural power resides outside our reach, this Vedic concept is hard to appreciate in the beginning. But through Self experience one can understand that grace comes from once's own pure Awareness state.
Spiritual masters answer the above question with very good illustrations. Saint Mata Amritananada Mayi Devi, also called Ammachi or hugging saint, puts it with a beautiful example. She says "Grace" is always present round the clock for all of us, but is untapped because of the impurity of the Ego mind. Like a lantern, grace is the light that cannot reach out if the glass (mind) of the lantern is covered with dark black soot (Ego). Just by cleaning even a small area of the glass can bring out light from inside. Similarly, only if the mind is purified, grace will be received.
Why are eyes closed while doing prayers?
Prayers are like the cleaning agents that can clean the dirt (Ego) from the mind and let the light of Grace from the self be available from us. This is why while doing prayers the eyes are closed, so that the awareness is turned inside and not outside. Only through awareness the purification of the mind can be acheived.
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Prayer - A Powerful Positive statement
Prayers are powerful positive statement that give right direction to the wandering mind. Prayers are always inspirational and gives a positive outlook in life.
Look at this Vedic Prayer.
Asa-tho Maa Sath Gamaya
Thama-so Maa Jo-thir Gamaya
Mrith-yor Maa Amri-tham Gamaya
This means
Lead me from untruth to truth;
Lead me from darkness to light;
Lead me from death to immortality.
Another Powerful Prayer of St.Francis of Asissi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon;
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith;
Where there is despair, let me sow hope;
Where there is darkness, let me sow light;
Where there is sadness, let me sow joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
The above are just sample prayers from two spiritual traditions. You can chose a prayer from your own tradition and chant everyday in the morning and in the night before bed. Chanting prayers will remove all the impurities of the mind, which means to bring the wandering mind to the present.
Prayers have the power to help to transcend to the awareness state, which is also the source of Grace.
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Prayer is not a begging statement
Unfortunately, now prayers done by most of us are begging statements crying for help. Our intellect is so much over thrown by our emotional mind that we seldom realize that our own thoughts create our life pattern and not anyone else outside. Prayers are powerful positive statements for our emotional minds and not for any unknown God outside our territory. We will discuss about God later in this section.
If some one believes in an omnipresent God present outside , even then a begging prayer is an insult to the omnipresent and omniscient God. When God is omniscient how can someone beg for things?
Prayer in the form of begging statements makes one weak. In deep troubles such begging statements out of ignorance might help initially to lesson the sorrow of the mind. But in the long run, the agitations of the mind still continue and so does sorrows. Without strengthening the intellect and increasing positive thoughts, sorrows in life cannot be overcome. This is why begging prayer statements goes futile.
All Vedic Prayers and so does other spiritual traditions prayers are powerful positive statements asking for an attitude to know the reality.
God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed
Give me courage to change things that must be changed
And the wisdom to distinguish from one from the other
This is a good prayer for purification of the mind that we have been discussing through the Pancha Bhootas or the five steps.
A Pagan serenity prayer beautifully summarizes the essence of the five steps of Pancha Bhoota as follows.
Gods and Goddess grant me:
The power of Water, to accept with ease and grace what I cannot change
The power of Fire, for the energy and courage the things I can
The power of Air, for the ability to know the difference.
And the power of Earth, for the strength to continue my path.
And the Power of Space, to know our Real Self (Sakthi's addition)
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Five steps (Pancha Bhootas) leads to Awareness
The five steps of mind and body purification in Pancha Bhoota healing helps to transcend to Pure awareness. Purification really means to be in thought. Something that is pure means that it has only one entity. Like pure gold means it has only gold and no other metal. So purification of mind means to have only one thought that is awareness. When the mind has innumerable thoughts through the contact of sense organs of external world, it is impure. When the mind is with drawn to the interior to go the awareness state of one thought, then the mind is said to be in the pure state.
Purification of mind in all healing and spiritual traditions means to with draw the mind inward to have only one pure (single) thought that leads to pure awareness. However the nature of the mind is to have many thoughts which it acquires through contact with objects.
Mind is like a kid running after attractive objects. A kid can focus or concentrate on his or her school lesson only if the mind is available for that activity. A parent or a teacher cannot teach a kid in a place like a shopping mall where lot of people come and go, because the kid's mind will go outward towards watching the people or events. So the best way to help the kid focus on the lesson is by creating an environment that makes the mind less distracted. Such a place is called school. This is not different from a temple or church of worship.
All religious and spiritual traditions have the fundamental aim to give this environment to the people who follow that traditions. It is sad to see later these organizations instead of allowing the individual to grow and mature inside, use them ruthlessly for the external growth of the organization. For this external growth in the size of the organization, it is does not hesitate to twist and corrupt the knowledge given by the master. This straying away from the "Truth" taught by the master, then breeds only hatred and leads to all religious wars, when the individuals fail to grow inwards and transcend to awareness state.
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