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

Holy Spirit,
let me hold
no separate identity
apart from you.

Let me see all ideas,
all thoughts,
that tell me I exist
as a being apart,
and let me surrender those thoughts
into the dust of nothingness
from which they came.

As I surrender my thoughts,
I surrender my heart too.
But I surrender my heart,
not to nothingingness,
but to everything
and only-thing,
which is to surrender to You.

Make of me a slave,
moved only by You
through my desire
to have no semblance
of my own identity,
an identity I would call mine.

Make my identity
ours,
one and the same.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

My prayer today
is for the state of constantness
as a state that I hold
in my awareness
always.

As the ego struggles for experience,
let me stay in constantness.
Let me watch the ego’s efforts
from awareness of constantness
and peace.

Let me not interact with the ego
by believing it,
or joining it,
or trying to stop its workings.

Let me remain in constantness
and know where I am.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

All of my thinking
does not matter.
It is only a way
of keeping the ego alive.

What will unfold
will unfold,
and I choose
to be grateful for it.

In peace, I accept peace
as the only essence.
In peace,
I am grateful.

I surrender my thinking
in gratitude.

I do not deny the temptation to think,
but I surrender my thinking in gratitude,
and I ask,
“How am I to see this?”
“What am I to do?”

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

My heart does know what it wants.
Let me surrender to You,
my Holy Spirit,
as a loving slave
surrenders to its master.

Let me not think for myself
about either problem
or solution.

Let me only surrender
in blissful trust
of my master’s all-knowing ways.

Let me be happy to serve,
and let me be happy to wait
when the next order of service
has not yet been given.

As I surrender to you,
I let go of ego.
Thank you for the gift of surrender.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening

Peace is my only goal.
Not happiness within a world
or with an object,
but peace,
which transcends all worlds
and all objects.

I close my eyes
and sense the Source of peace.

I am still,
and I am one with that Source.

I choose not to forget what I am
as I experience a world and objects.
Let that knowledge transcend
all I seem to see
and be all that I experience
in anything.

Amen.

~A prayer of awakening