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Songs of Eternity

AWAKEN YOUR OWN ENERGY

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Through prayer

There is a beautiful Sutra in the Narada Bhakti Sutra which says that to whom you surrender is not important, the surrender itself is what is important. You can even surrender to a stone and you will see how God speaks to you through the stone. Vivekananda in his commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras says that the object of your concentration is not important; the concentration itself is enough. He adds that all your prayers to God does only one thing - awakening your own inner potential energy. When you pray intensely, banish the thought that your prayers are heard somewhere and

A spiritual practitioner holding a flower petal with prayer beads
Carved stone sculpture of a deity

someone blesses you. Your own inner potential energy is awakened and it showers its blessing on you in the form of God, irrespective of what form you worship.

Paramahamsa
Mind is the Minefield
USA

A brahmachari of the Nithyananda order offers puja to the sacred Pavazhakundru rock in Tiruvannamalai where Paramahamsa had his first deep spiritual experience at the age of 12.

A brahmachari of the Nithyananda order offers puja to the sacred Pavazhakundru rock