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Pathway to Liberation Speech delivered at Allahabad on 9th April 1968.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking to you on the important aspect of Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga, which, in my opinion, is paramount as a significant contribution made by Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj, namely the spiritual transformation of man. That I call Pranahuti or Transmission, a method adopted for igniting the minds and souls of men to finer and greater achievement of the ultimate reality.
Today I wish to dilate on the supreme possibilities open to the seeker after the ultimate by this means, the attainments that he is likely to meet with on the path to total transformation. A prayer is always to the ultimate Being to take you to His ultimate status. It assumes that the Divine ultimate can descend and does so, not only in the large historical periods in the form of avatars, but also in the little incidents of a human life, an awakening in the heart of the antaryamin within each one of us.
A prayer uttered to the Infinite makes it possible for Him to enter into you, and this is done by the Guru or teacher who does the transmission on behalf of the Ultimate, or as the Ultimate itself. Therefore, prayer is a necessary preliminary to any spiritual puja or worship. It is an opening of the mind and the heart for the entry of God into you, an entry of the driving force of God into you, till finally it becomes a continuous stream or flow sustaining every activity of yours; when you are awake or asleep; when you are liberated or unliberated; when you have transcended the body or entered into the great and brighter heavens. But the most important and significant feature about it is in the technique. That not only should you say the prayer once, or only twice, but afterwards wait for the Divine to do His task. I remember the great story where it was stated that an excellent devotee of God, who was rather addicted to the practice of chanting the names of God a thousand times, had begun his chant. God came at the first call; but the devotee would not recognize it, and insisted upon repeating and reciting the whole number of 1008! God said he can afford to wait, and so left. So it is necessary for you to wait for God, rather than make God wait for you, even