Page 62 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

always speaks of service to his abhyasis rather than of getting service from them.
Prayer is the most efficacious method, for it releases the conditions that bring about in the most simple way the realization. Some prefer a long prayer but whatever may be the prayer if it does not contain the essential conditions of fixing the goal of prayer, of oneself and of what one seeks, the means or selection of the means, and does not realize that one must be prepared to eschew the impediments which could be eschewed by one leaving the rest to be removed by the Master, it is not a complete prayer or a right one.
There is a reference to Puja or worship. The idea of worship is essential to all religions. The God to be worshipped, of course, should be the Highest. The Highest alone can grant us the peace that passeth understanding and which is the Original or Ultimate Source. God is omnipervasive or everywhere. Worship involves the realization that man is in need of worshipping adoring some one; we all seek in worship those who are better than ourselves. Hero-worship owes its strength to this need for an object of worship. This instinctive need which everyone feels shows that man is not all but needs the Highest. What we seek is the Master or leader and ourselves are but his followers or servants. Sectarian names are not very important provided we are able to grant to those names the meaning of Omnipervasiveness. Since our worship is at the heart and concentration is at the heart it follows that the Omnipervasiveness of God includes His being within the heart. That is why the centre of the Calm is to be visualized or imagined at the heart. In a sense Omnipervasiveness will preclude the fixing of form of God in any manner except as the Transcendent Calm Central Principle at the heart which begins to break through or unwind the knots or circles that have made for the separation and distance between the individual and the Divine.
Though one may start with the traditional worship that each one has inherited, yet once this abhyasa is taken up one gets to the subtler worship of the Divine and surely attains the Highest State in the shortest possible time.