Past thoughts haunts you ?  

7/2/2009 10:47 pm Last Read: 7/2/2009 10:48 pm

PAST THOUGHTS HAUNTS YOU ? -2 [Part -1 posted earlier] As a limited individual, I invoke the lord's help, the Lords grace by an act of prayer. Being based on one's will prayer is an action. Itis an act invoking grace as well as a simple autosuggestion. As I sit in meditation relaxed, I offer a prayer to the Lord whom I invoke in any given form in any given name. I pray: O Lord, may I have the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change, May I have the will and effort to change what I can and may I have the wisdom to know the difference between what I can and cannot change. I cannot change my childhood, my parentage my entire past, what has happended in my life I cannot change. What has happend has happened, I cannot do anything about it .On the basis of what has happend I have nothing to regret. I have no reason to be sad depressed or angry. i drop my anguish for what has happened. I accept gracefully whatever has happend in my life. There are a lot of things that I can cnange that I can repair . I seek the strength of will and the ability to make proper adequate efforts to change . I do not waste my time trying to change what I cannot change nor do I want to waste my time putting up with unhealthy situation that I can change. The difference between the two ... what I can and cannot change .... is not easy to distingusih. It takes wisdom for which I again invoke your grace. O lord, may I enjoy ,have, the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change, the will and effort to change what I can and the wisdom to know the difference. I am just awake, alive to what happens at this moment. I lay down my will ,my choice. I am just awake to the moment. Moment to moment , my being aware of the moment does not fluctuate. My being aware of the moment is an abiding lasting ever present fact. My being aware is not in fits and starts.Its a presence which is always present. what I am aware of at this moment is unique.The object changes even these words are never the same. At this moment, a given word, a sentence a sound or an objecct changes. My being aware of what happens at this moment is not by choice . I am aware because I am an awareful presence . Free from memory, Iam an awareful presence. Om om om Swami dayananda [Reproduced from his book -non commercial reproduction allowed by the publisher]