"The Prayer" by Beinsa Douno |
Many people ask if it is possible to live without praying. It is not. The prayer is an internal human necessity. If the prayer becomes an internal necessity for you, you will pray naturally, without any force, without an external force. For you the prayer is as natural as feeding, breathing, feeling and thinking are. Why should we pray? Paul the Apostle said once, “Be consistent in praying”, and Jesus said, “Be alert and pray”. The prayer is of threefold nature. It is equal to breathing. One should pray so that the soul to breathe and perceive things. The prayer is needful for the soul. It is the contemplation of the highest feelings. Through the prayer we see that a child is praying. It is an appeal and is as needful for the soul as breathing is. Humans need air much more than food. It is proven that a human may stay without air for 25 minutes at most and if we equalize the air with the prayer, which is food for the soul, we see that it is of great significance to it. If people of today did not know how to pray, they would have lost even the little that they have preserved today. Everything good, everything great and beautiful, which is persevered by them, is thanks to the praying spirit that works in their souls. So, thanks to the prayer, though not so correct as it is in modern humanity, still something beautiful has remained and something new is being acquired. Thanks to the prayer, we become conduits of the sublime powers and noble means, on which the entire human race rests. The soul needs an internal spiritual food that can be provided only through a prayer. If one stops praying, life disappears. The prayer is a great thing. It is not expressed by chattering, by whispering of words. When you learn to pray, your life will become worth living. The reason for our misfortunes is that we do not pray. Our contact with God brings inexhaustible riches. The Divine blessing and strengthening of the spirit come through it. I would like you to pray constantly for you to be in contact with God. Only in this way, that influence from above will come to you. Then you will feel that Divine ennoblement and strengthening. Only when one prays, his body strengthens, as well as his feelings and his thoughts. One, who prays, cannot have a cruel heart. He can be delicate by structure, but his body is healthy, his thoughts are stable and his feelings - strong. It is not possible us to be in communion with God and be feeble.
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"The Prayer" by Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov)BOOK PREVIEWLET US PRAY TO GODWhile praying, we have to turn to Jesus. Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.” And more, “No one can come to the Father except through me.” When one prays, God impels him, and it shows that God has already drawn him. We will pray to Jesus. Jesus is the office; we will give our letters, telegrams, and prayers there and He will forward them to God. In prayers, we will turn to Jesus, because Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” God is not separate from Jesus. It is said in a prayer of ours, “Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom You are pleased to be called”. Jesus is a transformer, because one cannot go directly to God without Jesus as God is a consuming Fire. “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” The greatest Spirit on Earth, in the Universe is Jesus. There has been no case when one, who is in despair, in deadlock, suffering from a serious illness, has turned to that Great Spirit for help and hasn’t been helped. If one’s prayer is pure, deep, it is always accepted. God does not make difference between souls. Jesus said to his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Knowing that the Spirit of Jesus lives forever and has power and authority, do not be discouraged! You can always call upon Him and receive His help. Everyone has the power of Jesus in him. One just has to work on himself to develop that power. Once people develop that power in themselves, they will know what God is, what the Divine principle in humans is. There is nothing, about which man has asked God and which hasn’t been fulfilled. And it happens just when it is needed. One has to be bearer of Divine thoughts, must be convinced that every thought that he sends in the world is Divine and he must not think about the consequences. One must study the Word and practice praying and contemplation simultaneously. This is the path and one should not worry. One is to believe until the enlightenment and communion with Jesus comes. Open your heart and soul. The light will penetrate there and the comprehension will come. By praying you will facilitate the work of the blood to pass through your brain above, in the highest point of the head. The center is there “Love toward God.” The greatest thing in the world is the prayer. It connects us with God, with the eternal in us that gives us meaning. The prayer is an introduction of the Divine life. There is no better poetry in life than praying, i.e. communing with God. You are to pray without complaining. Losing faith is breaking of the connection with the reality. One shall never break that connection. What shall you do? You are to connect with the reality. One, who is not connected with God, is like a fallen leaf that the wind blows everywhere. That is why humans must be connected with God. If anyone doubts God, he has lost everything. If anyone comes to doubt God, no matter how much he has advanced, a whole catastrophe occurs in him. One is connected with God and must not seek other connections. It is said, “Do not connect with the world.” One connection is sufficient. We suffer from lots of connections. It is said in the law, “You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God.” However, today, despite the law, God's Name is freely mentioned. In fact, the true name of God is hidden. If it is pronounced as it is, cataclysm will occur in people's lives. The current name of God is an alias. Even the name Jehovah, as He was called by the Jews, is also an alias. You pray 2-3 times a day, pronounce the Name of God, but you do not get a response to the prayer. Why? It is because God answers only once. There is no better thing than God listening to you. The same applies to the Sun. If you understand its language and connect with it, you will get life from it. If you do not understand it and if you are not in connection with it, it causes disorder. The prayer is one way to come to know God as Love. It leads to Love, the good and sublime state that you have - to help, to forgive your neighbor, to raise one who has fallen. This is due to the time that you have spent in your secret room. A child was away from his mother for 10 years. He had fallen ill and was close to dying. They wrote to his mother to come, because her son was in a hopeless situation. When the mother approached him, he was unconscious, dreaming, with his eyes closed. She put her hand on him and he whispered, “Mom!” He recognized the vibrations of his mother. It is the same for God. Humans have internal knowledge of God's hand. To pray means to turn your mind, heart, soul and spirit to that source of life, from which you have come. If a person becomes stupid, this is due to the fact that he rarely remembers the First Cause, i.e. the origin of life. Therefore, the degradation, to which modern humanity has come, is due to a deep internal reason - negligence toward the First Principle, from Which it has come out. Modern people are careless about God and consequently you will often hear one saying, “I am a free person, I can live without God and without praying.” Someone telling that he can live without a prayer is like saying that he can live without breathing. If breathing stops for an hour, one will understand what a need it is for him. If breathing is a necessity for people, their thoughts of God are a thousand times more necessary for them. The more one remembers God and keeps Him in his mind, the nobler he is. The nobility of the human soul depends on one’s thoughts of God. So, if we want to be noble, we must remember God as an essence that flows through us. In all situations of our lives – both joys and sorrows - we must remember God. Out of God, no education, no nobility, no science, no religion, no art and craft - nothing exists. If the great image of Love is not printed in your soul and if you do not realize that you are connected to God, you can achieve nothing even if you are the greatest, the most rational or the most intelligent. So, one thought should keep you busy: you are connected to the higher consciousness, on which you can always rely and trust. Anyone can connect to that consciousness. It is said in the Scripture, “In God we live, move, and exist.” How can harmony be maintained between a person and God? The prayer is one of the conditions. Through the prayer, the sacred connection of the human soul with the First Cause of things is maintained. “I do not want to pray.” If you do not want to pray, you will enter the unnatural order of life. The prayer is one of the essential human duties. The prayer for human spiritual life is as the physical duties for humans. Humans are to keep to God as Earth keeps to the Sun. While thinking of God, you will grow. Praying means to think about God. Every thought of God, no matter how weak it is, shines like a spark in the minds of people and contributes something. It is not important if you understand what God is. However, you can always think of Him. That thought will still bring you some good, though microscopic. To think of God means to think right. Merging of souls is an internal process. Rivers merge and banks merge. When rivers do not merge, banks do not merge. Both processes happen simultaneously and namely that exists in Nature between beings. The same happens between people and God, between one person and another one. During merging, transfusion from one soul to the other takes place. This merging and transfusion can happen only between two souls, among which there is Love. It is the same with our relationship with God. During a prayer, love toward God is to be felt in order merging and transfusion to take place. Therefore, the basis of every prayer to God is Love. A saint, an advanced person experiences the Divine Love a few times in his life and then there is bliss; he feels God in everything and loves God in everybody. All other conditions of love are spiritual love, and not Divine one. Each saint is so in love that he has forgotten worldly things for love. He has been so entranced by what he has seen that he has also forgotten to dress himself. His ideal is so high that he has forgotten everything and while waiting for letters from above, he will sometimes cry for what he has seen. A prayer without Love is not accepted. Each prayer in us can act only if it is accompanied by Love. The Divine Spirit is the One, Who pronounces the prayer. True prayer is Love. In a true prayer you send God your Love and gratitude. The prayer is a state of gratitude and Love. Once we understand the deep meaning of the prayer, we will know that God thinks, feels, and acts through us. This is what we call inspiration. So one should pray in order the Divine thoughts, feelings and acts to manifest and begin to work through God. One cannot pray until he connects his mind with the mind of God. Once he connects his mind, he will also connect his heart. To pray, it means one to connect with God, to perceive his thoughts and feelings. When one prays to God or when he does something for Him, it is Love. During a prayer the soul should be clean and empty. We are to be ready to perceive. We must not have any other images in our souls, but God. When we go to God, we should not have any images in our souls – we are to have only one image. It is because people are created in the image and likeness of God, one must discard all other images from his soul and leave only one sacred image - the image of God. If the other images remain in his soul, he cannot pray. You are to clear your Holy of Holies of the many images and only the original God’s image is to remain in it. Only it is able to give a great impulse to your soul. The many images, the many ideas, the many desires lead to falling asleep. The prayer is a conversation of the soul with Love. We shall pray constantly! The prayer is needed for us, and not for God, to distribute the benefits we bring. You are to pray and give away of your welfare. You are to pray and seek God in your soul and you are to talk to Him. If you think that God is outside of you, you are on the wrong path. While you are connected with God, you can do everything. If you are ill, you will get better immediately; if you are discouraged, you will be encouraged. Apply the prayer as a method of work in the spiritual world. Through the prayer you connect with God both externally and internally. You are to seek God in and out of you, but not simultaneously. Therefore, you are to connect with God both externally and internally and thank Him. You are to know that God is outside of you and inside you. He guides you both externally and internally for all conditions He gives you. If you divert from the path, along which He guides you, you yourself will encounter sufferings. Remember the following truth: there is no a greater thing in one’s life than the prayer. No matter what else people tell you, do not forget the importance and necessity of the prayer, of the communion with God. Neither knowledge nor Love, nor the wisdom on Earth can be compared with the prayer, with the communion of people with the First Cause. When one prays properly, he is always turned to God. If he prays to God and thinks about a friend, his mother, his children, his house, money, then his prayer reaches only them. He prays to them. And in order his prayer to be accepted, he must think of God. The base of each prayer is the love towards God. Which Spirit must penetrate in your prayer? During praying to God you talk to the One, Who loves you and the One, Who loves you talks to you. True prayer is a communion of love. Love prompts us to praying. During a prayer first of all you open your soul and show your love towards God. You are to think of Jesus with love. You are to pray to Jesus with love for Him to appear to you. One, who has love, is familiar with Jesus. Every day we must think with love for Jesus. We shall not force ourselves. We shall do this peacefully. One connects with Jesus when he thinks of Him. And when he reads the Gospel, and when he fulfills God's Will, one connects with Jesus. When one thinks of Jesus, his mind connects with the mind of Jesus and enriches so. Jesus said that He will instill with the Father in the person and make it home, but he has put a condition, after which he will do so: “If you fulfill my commandments.” The condition must be met for Jesus to instill in the person; for His coming to the person to happen. Ask God for the impossible. The impossible for people is possible for God. Ask God to instill in you, His Love to come in you. Ask God you to try this Love right now, in this life. Ask God to live in you and manifest in you. The only one, Who transforms, is God. The meaning of life is the communion with God. I often hear someone saying that his Love has been stolen. Could Love be stolen? The only thing you cannot steal is Love. The only thing you cannot steal is Truth. The only thing you cannot steal is Wisdom. Love is not stolen; it is impossible. You can steal something else, but not Love. It is the same if someone tells you that someone has stolen the Sun. Or if you are told that the Sun has gone to visit Earth. It is impossible. The big does not go to the little, but the little goes to the big. Some of you, while praying, want God to come to you. No, you will go to Him. An educated person does not go to an ignorant person. The ignorant person should go to the educated one. You will say that the mother goes to the child. No, at first the child has come down to its mother. There are two moments: when God looks for us and when we seek Him. We are to observe the coincidence of these two moments, because then things are most easily achieved. And if God is far away, then it is difficult. God says, “Seek Me while I'm close.” When joy comes and you do not know the reason for it, it is because that joy is of the highest order. The causal body is not developed yet, so we just feel it without knowing the source. The psalmist says, “When he sees Your face, his heart will become joyful.” Joy and gladness come from the presence of God. You can never liberate from the one, who loves you. You can liberate yourself from everything, but never from a person, who loves you. Where can you liberate from God? You cannot. Wherever you go, He might not appear to you, but you feel that you cannot get out of Him. What we love is always within us. It is a teaching very simple for understanding. When a little child gets hungry, it has to go to his mother and say, “Mom, I'm hungry.” The mother will feed him, because the child is weak, feeble. It cannot earn its living alone. Everyone has the right - who has worked for the Whole, for God or for humans. If you work for God, everywhere in the world people will work for you. If you work for God, people and trees and water will work for you. If you are an agriculturer, it will rain on time and you will have no obstacles. Do not want to have the blessing of people, but to feel that you work for God and that God works for you. One’s prayer will be best heard when he completely dedicates his mind, heart and will to God. When they are enlightened in the three worlds - physical, spiritual and Divine - then good work is being performed. It is because a prayer is work. One learns during a prayer. During a prayer God teaches people. Someone will say, “How is that? During a prayer one sends thoughts to God and talks to Him, doesn’t he?” Yes, but during a prayer the human soul opens for the Divine world, tunes with it, comes into a perceptive state toward the energies from there and accepts the thought of God and from the life of God – then, from these spaces, new ideas come into the human soul. And after that, new, bright ideas and impulses that one has accepted from above during the prayer come into the human mind throughout the day. During all times God has spoken to humans. There is no time when God has not spoken. Some people think that they can be self-taught – someone has surely taught you, but you have forgotten. God has spoken to everybody, but some people have heard, and others have forgotten. There is a specific way of God’s talking. God speaks to everybody generally and specifically only to those, who are ready. The quiet voice that spoke to Elijah is a specific voice. Not everybody can hear the quiet voice. If people fight, God cannot speak to them in a quiet voice. They are deaf to that voice. Connect with God so that wherever you go to hear His quiet and pleasant voice. What is the state of a person visited by God? It is like the dawn. It is as if you have come out early in the morning on a mountain peak and you watch from there the dawn and welcome the first sunrays. At this solemn moment of the soul, you kneel before God, lift your eyes up and say a prayer of gratefulness to Him. “What will people say when they see me kneeling?” Leave people aside. People, it is you. These are the shadows of your mind. Do not be afraid of them. If you look at yourself in lots of mirrors, you will have lots of images, but the true image is only one. The rest images are reflections, shadows of the true image. Once you get into a reverent state, lift your hands up, pass through the joy and sorrow to see how God works and watches His creatures how they fall and stand up and how He corrects their lives. Then raise yourself to a higher world and see how He lives. It means one to be joyful in the hope, patient in sorrow, and persistent in praying. There is no a greater time for people and for every living creature than the one, when one wakes up in the morning to turn his mind towards that direction, to which the minds and thoughts of all other beings are directed. Only in this way one can perceive the good that comes out from God. One, who refuses to accept that good, falls into darkness and loneliness. Someone says, “Why should I pray?” Praying is necessary, because then one turns his mind to God to perceive something from Him. In this sense, the prayer is the opening of colors for the sunlight and heat. There is a moment in life when all beings - from the smallest ones to the largest ones, turn their minds to God. In this case, the mystical aspect of the prayer is one to grasp that moment, to join the common prayer and say, “I turn my mind, heart, soul and spirit to the One, to Whom everybody turn at this moment.” In addition, everyone will direct a thought appropriate to his development. God will reply to that collective prayer by sending everyone so much light as one needs.
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