A Prayer For The World:  The Notebooks of Paul Brunton 13.4.306

In this time of confusion and anxiety, of strife and trouble, it is our holy duty to remember our dependence on Thee, O real Governor of the world!

We realize that the darkness in the world today has come because so many have forgotten their dependence on Thee.

Those whose positions of power or influence have placed them in the nations’ councils need, in their grave responsibility, the help of Thy communion and the benefit of Thy guidance as never before, that they may not stray into error or weakness.

Therefore, we shall daily pray for them and for ourselves, in minutes of private worship or silent meditation, that all may regain the feeling of Thy presence. We shall constantly confess our shortcomings and faults, but we promise to strive to better and ennoble our lives. We shall endeavour to cast out all evil thinking and materialistic belief.

Our need of Thy mercy and grace is vast. Show us the way to win them, O Infinite Father of all beings, Whose love is our last resource. 

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Gayatri Mantra

Om bhur bhuvah svah,  tat savitur varenyam,

bhargo devasya dhimahi,  dhiyo yonah prachodayat.

Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress toward its holy seat.

Taimni comments:  (Gayatri)

The purpose of the first part of the mantra  is to arouse in the vehicles of the sadhaka (aspirant) certain powers which prepare for the effective functioning of the second and third parts. Om bhur bhuvah svah

The second part is to stimulate the mind of the sadhaka an intense aspiration or determination to come into contact with the consciousness of Savita the presiding deity of our solar system.  tat savitur varenyam,

The third part is meant to bring about an attitude of self-surrender which is essential for the descent of Divine grace or kripa. 

The physical Sun which we see … is merely an outer cover of a glorious reality which pervades and energizes the whole solar system. …this Reality is in essence and fundamentally the same as the Reality which is hidden in the heart of every human. The Spiritual Light which is hidden within the Sun is the most excellent light. It is shining through the hearts of all living creatures in the form of consciousness.  The Spiritual Light which is shining within the physical Sun also shines within the heart of every jiva.  The light which is shining in the heart of all jivas in the form of consciousness is also shining through the universe in the form of the Heavenly Man and making it a living organism.  [Yajnavalka Samhita]