BURNING BRAZIER
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		     Prayers of the Mother
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The   Prayers    are   mostly   written    in   an
identification with the earth-consciousness. It is
the  Mother in  the  lower  nature addressing  the
Mother in  the higher  nature, the  Mother herself
carrying on the Sadhana of the earth-consciousness
for  the transformation  praying to  herself above
from whom the forces of transformation come.

					Sri Aurobindo



Burning Brazier
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To  be the  divine  love,  love powerful,  infinite,
unfathomable, in  every activity, in all  the worlds
of  the being  - it  is for  this I  cry to  Thee, O
Lord. Let me be consumed with this love divine, love
powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity,
in all  the worlds of being! Transmute  me into that
burning brazier so that  all the atmosphere of earth
may be purified with its flame.
Oh, to be Thy Love infinitely...

Constant Prayer
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O Thou, sole Reality, Light of our light
and Life of our life, Love supreme, Saviour
of the world, grant that more and more I may
be perfectly awakened to the awareness of Thy
constant presence. Let all my acts conform to
Thy law; let there be no difference between
my will and Thine. Extricate me from the
illusory consciousness of my mind, from its
world of fantasies; let me identify my
consciousness with the Absolute Consciousness,
for that art Thou.
    Give me constancy in the will to attain
the end, give me firmness and energy and the
courage which shakes of all torpor and lassitude.
    Give me the peace of perfect disinterestedness,
the peace that makes Thy presence felt and Thy
intervention effective, the peace that is ever
victorious over all bad will and every obscurity.
    Grant, I implore Thee, that all in my
being may be identified with Thee. May I be
nothing else any more than a flame of love
utterly awakened to a supreme realisation of
Thee.

Prayer of Aspiration
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This morning my prayer rises to Thee,
always with the same aspiration to live
Thy love, to radiate Thy love, with such
potency and effectiveness that all may
feel fortified, regenerated and illumined by
our contact. To have power to heal life, to
relieve suffering, to generate peace and
calm confidence, to efface anguish and
replace it by the sense of the one true
happiness, the happiness that is founded
in Thee and never fades.... O Lord, O marvellous
Friend, O all-powerful Master, penetrate
all our being, transfigure it till Thou alone
livest in us and through us!

RADHA'S PRAYER
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O Thou whom at first sight I knew for the
Lord of my being and my God, receive my
offfering.
    Thine are all my thoughts, all my
emotions, all the sentiments of my heart,
all my sensations, all the movements of
my life, each cell of my body, each drop
of my blood. I am absolutely and altogether
Thine, Thine without reserve. What Thou
wilt of me, that I shall be. Whether Thou
choosest for me life or death, happiness
or sorrow, pleasure or suffering, all that
comes to me from Thee will be welcome. Each
one of Thy gifts will be always for me a
gift divine bringing with it the supreme
Felicity.

Prayer for those who wish to serve the divine
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Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over
every obstacle.

Grant that nothing in us shall be an
obstacle to Thy work.

Grant that nothing may retard Thy manifestation.

Grant that Thy will may be done in all things
and at every moment.

We stand here before Thee that Thy will may be
fulfilled in us, in every element, in every
activity of our being, from our supreme heights
to the smallest cells of the body.

Grant that we may be faithful to Thee utterly
and for ever.

We would be completely under Thy influence to the
exclusion of every other.

Grant that we may never forget to own towards Thee
a deep, an intense gratitude.

Grant that we may never squander any of the marvellous
things that are Thy gifts to us at every instant.

Grant that everything in us may collaborate in Thy
work and all be ready for Thy realisation.

Glory to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Master of all realisation.

Give us a faith active and ardent, absolute and
unshakable in Thy victory.

Students' Prayer
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Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to
become. May we fight successfully the great
battle of the future that is to be born,
against the past that seeks to endure; so that
the new things may manifest and we may be ready
to receive them.

Morning Prayer
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Mother Divine, grant that today may
bring to us a completer consecration to
Thy Will, a more integral gift of ourselves
to Thy work, a more total forgetfulness of
self, a greater illumination, a purer love.
Grant that in a communication growing ever
deeper, more constant and entire, we may be
united always more and more closely to Thee
and become Thy servitors worthy of Thee.
Remove from us all egoism, root out all petty
vanity, greed and obscurity. May we be all
ablaze with Thy divine Love; make us Thy torches
in the world.

Prayer to Mother India
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O our Mother, O Soul of India, Mother
who hast never forsaken thy children
even in the days of darkest depression,
even when they turned away from thy voice,
served other masters and denied thee,
now when they have arisen and the
light is on thy face in this dawn of thy
liberation, in this great hour we salute
thee. Guide us so that the horizon of
freedom opening before us may be also a
horizon of true greatness and of thy true
life in the community of the nations. Guide
us so that we may be always on the side of
great ideals and show to men thy true visage,
as a leader in the ways of the spirit and
a friend and helper of all the peoples.

Prayer to Sri Aurobindo
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To Thee who hast been the material envelope
of our Master, to Thee our infinite gratitude.
Before Thee who hast done so much for us, who
hast worked, struggled, suffered, hoped,
endured so much, before Thee who hast willed
all, attempted all, prepared, acheived all
for us, before Thee we bow down and implore
that we may never forget, even for a moment,
all we owe to Thee.

Prayer for Peace
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Peace, peace upon all the earth!
    May all escape from the ordinary
consciousness and be delivered from the
attachment for material things, may they
awake to the knowledge of Thy divine
presence, unite themselves with Thy supreme
consciousness and taste the plenitude of
peace that springs from it.
    Lord, Thou art the sovereign Master
of our being, Thy law is our law, and with
all our strength we aspire to identify our
consciousness with Thy eternal consciousness,
that we may accomplish Thy sublime work in
each thing and at every moment.
    Lord, deliver us from all care for
contingencies, deliver us from the ordinary
outlook on things. Grant that we may henceforth
see only with Thy eyes and act only by Thy will.
Transform us into living torches of Thy divine
love.
    With reverence, with devotion, in a joyful
consecration of my whole being I give myself,
O Lord to the fulfilment of Thy law.
    Peace, peace upon all the earth.