The Best Prayer

The latest series of readings in Paramahansa Yogananda's Spiritual Diary deal with prayer. I loved today's entry:

"The best course is to pray:
'Lord, make me happy
with awareness of Thee.
Give me freedom from all earthly desires,
and above all give me Thy joy
that outlasts all the happy and sad
experiences of life.'"

On a wonderfully magnificent day, it was the best prayer to pray...

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Doug said…
that is a wonderful reminder - thank you for sharing this - just what I needed today!
April 22, 2009 at 7:56 AM
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