Prayer And Meditation

"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens" --Baha'ullah

PART FIVE: Prayer and Meditation

Prayer and meditation are the two most powerful tools that we can use to bring about our spiritual transformation. In fact this is the only means by which we can transcend to the centre of the medicine wheel. At this centre a person can see herself/himself as a whole person in a detached manner. Science has proven the beneficial effects of prayer and meditation on the person as a whole.

"If people find no room in their lives to pray or meditate, to reflect deeply on why they have been created and what they must do with their lives, and to listen with all of their being to the guidance of the universe, then those people are like birds who have not yet learned to fly. All the parts of the bird are present, but still something is missing. To be a whole person is to be alive in a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual way." ("The Sacred Tree", Four Worlds International Institute.)

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Individual: Dynamics of Prayer

"While in Haifa, the beloved Guardian of the Cause gave to the writer (Mrs Ruth Moffat), the most concise, complete, and effective formula she has ever seen, for the Dynamics of Prayer. After saying to stress the need of more prayers and meditation among the friends, he said to use these five steps if we had a problem of any kind for which we desired a solution or wished help.

First Step. --Pray and meditate about it. Use the prayers of the Manifestations as they have the greatest power. Then remain in the silence of contemplation for a few minutes.

Second Step. --Arrive at a decision and hold this. This decision is usually born during the contemplation. It my seem almost impossible of accomplishment but if it seems to be as answer to a prayer or a way of solving the problem, then immediately take the next step.

Third Step. -- Have determination to carry the decision through. Many fail here. The decision, budding into determination, is blighted and instead becomes a wish or a vague longing. When determination is born, immediately take the next step.

Fourth Step. --Have faith and confidence that the power will flow through you, the right way will appear, the door will be open, the right thought, the right message, the right principle or the right book will be given you. Have confidence, and the right thing will come to your need. Then, as you rise from prayer, take at once the fifth step.

Fifth Step. --Then, he said, lastly, ACT; Act as though it had all been answered. Then act with tireless, ceaseless energy. And as you act, you, yourself, will become a magnet, which will attract more power to your being, until you become an unobstructed channel for the Divine power to flow through you. Many pray but do not remain for the last half of the first step. Some who meditate arrive at a decision, but fail to hold it. Few have the determination to carry the decision through, still fewer have the confidence that the right thing will come to their need. But how many remember to act as though it had all been answered? How true are these words--'Greater than the prayer is the spirit in which it is uttered' and greater than the way it is uttered it the spirit in which it is carried out.

The above statements belongs properly to the class of statement known as "pilgrim's notes" and as such has no authority but, since it seems to be particularly helpful and clear, it was felt that believers should not be deprived of it." (Principles of Baha'i Administration, pg 90-91)

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