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with the Supreme Self within—your yearning to lead your soul to the transcendent planes of Spirit where time becomes a myth, where changes cease to operate, where mortality evaporates like darkness vanishing before light, where pain terminates and sorrow exists no more.
Every religion encompasses prayers revealed by great Sages and Saints that express lofty ideas and thoughts. However, if you repeat them mechanically without focusing on the beauty and grandeur of the meaning and the feeling, they are not as effective as they could be.
There is a famous prayer from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:
Asato Ma Sad Gamaya; Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya; Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya.
“Lead me from unreal to real; Lead me from darkness to light; Lead me from death to immortality.”
This prayer beckons the aspirant to recognize within the depths of his heart the presence of Divinity in the form of Truth that abides forever, Light that is pure transcendental wisdom, and Immortality that is the state of communion with the Divinity.
Similarly, there is a Vedic prayer called Gayatri Mantra:
