Page 67 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Divine Consciousness working through man's heart and carrying him to the higher centres or spheres of reality experience.
All men are aware more and more in a world that is expanding and becoming one in saying that the 'old' man is no longer enough and that the 'old' mentality is a bar to higher and larger work of God. Both in the material and in the spiritual sense man is inadequate and confused. Expansion of his desires only develops ambitions which cause more and more estrangements and conflicts. The upward radical transformation. The fixed ego of ours has to become a plastic and spiritual vehicle of the Divine Nature.
Desires centre round the ego and reinforce it and, therefore, they have to be seen as obstacles to ultimate realization of God who is the Ultimate. God indeed is transcendent to all our conceptions of Him.
Therefore, the Prayer starts with the statement of our Goal (upaya- purushartha); the impediments to that goal are stated next so as to seek God as the helper and power to reach Him. Lastly, He is sought as the means (upaya). Vedanta indeed stated that God is both the means and Goal of man.
In this connection ancient seers of the South have found that the great system founded by Sri Narayana and sponsored by Sri Krishna called the Pancharatra stated that true prayer has to contain the essential ingredient of integral surrender. This self-surrender to God should contain the basic limbs of (i) Anukulasamkalpa (willing the helpful), (ii) Pratikulavarjana (renunciation or abandoning of that which impedes or obstructs of realization); (iii) Goptrtvavaranam the choice or choosing of the goal proper to our endeavour); (iv) Mahavisvasa (faith supreme in the Guru or Master or God that He is competent to save); (v) Atmanikshepa (offering of the soul itself or placing it at His disposal); and lastly (vi) Karpanya (utter dependence on God for everything). Sri Ramanuja and Venkatanatha called this nyasavidya. In the Prayer given by Sri Ram Chandraji we have in fact, the stating of the third limb Goptrtvavaranam, first then the Pratikulavarjanam, and thirdly the utter dependence on God and placing of oneself under the Master for the change and growth and development and attainment (Atmanikshepa).