The Heart is beyond words.
It is real,
and its meaning is reality.

~A thought of awakening

I vow to listen
to my devoted Heart.

~A thought of awakening

I vow to be devoted
to my devoted Heart.

~A thought of awakening

I pray for the fulfillment
of my true desire.
I understand the answer
must come from grace.

I cannot make for myself
that which I am.
I cannot think it
into my experience.

And so I pray for the fulfillment
of my true desire,
knowing that grace is received
through absolute surrender.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

The individual self is strong
when the individual self has been given
attention.

I take this attention away
and place it on the Heart,
yet the individual self remains loud
because I have given it attention.

I can rest now
and wait
while the attention I have given
dies away.

When all that I have given
has run its course,
the individual self
will not seem strong.

I wait in patient knowing,
knowing who I am.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

Today let me have strict abidance
in the Heart, Within,
listening and following
and not thinking.

I ask for strict abidance
because I know and do not deny
the ego’s ability to distract attention
to the world of form,
away from the Heart
and inner awareness.

I choose to remain firm
in remembrance of what I want.
I ask for strict abidance,
that I may remember
I do not want to be distracted
away from inner attention
on Self.

Amen

~A prayer of awakening

The mind wills to wander,
but the Heart remains
as always
constant.

Let the mind stay focused with the Heart.
Let it not be like a separate being
wandering apart and lost.

Let the mind be Home,
focused on the Heart,
centered and one with it.

This is its truth.

Let it not deny reality
by thinking and wandering as if alone
separate from the loving and peaceful existence
that is its Source.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

Words are symbols.
They are symbols
that I believed
communicated.

I see now
that symbols do not
communicate.

Communication is beyond
all symbols.
Communication occurs
through the vibration
of mind or Heart.

Holy Spirit,
help me to abandon
the vibration of mind
because the thinking in mind
is not me.

Help me attune
to the vibration of Heart
and sing only its song,
since its song is my true song
and all that I would want
to sing now.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

Holy Spirit,
it is my will
that I do Your Will.

I am aware
of a voice in me
that is not Your Voice
or Your Will.

I chose this voice
and gave it permission
to speak in my mind,
but now I make another choice.

It is my choice now
to return to My Will,
which is also Your Will
because our Will is the same.

Help me to leave
the habits I have formed
and return Home
to my Heart and my truth.

Show me when I have slipped
and begun to forget who I am,
that I may surrender the will I no longer want
and return Home to Your Will and my Heart.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

Beginning today, instead of contemplating the Thought of Awakening with the inner teacher, contemplate the messages from The Teachings of Inner Ramana  with the inner teacher each day. (Reference today’s tip.)

For the remainder of Year 2, use each day’s Thought of Awakening as a prayer that you return to throughout the day in order to remain in a state of devotion.

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Holy Spirit,
let me remember
that a bird is not a bird,
a hand is not a hand,
a body is not a body.

Let me remember
that the sky is not the sky,
the clouds are not clouds
and rain is not rain.

All that my mind shows me
as I look upon the world
is an error and a mirage.

How can I think I know
based on what I see and experience?

To think I know
based on what I see
is to be a fool
believing a fool’s images.

Let me be wise
and trust not my sight.
Let me surrender fully
to You.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening