Pure Prayer in Vedic Science
Vedic Science includes the teachings of Advaita Vedanta dating to the 1st centuries BCE.¹ The selections below include those of Vedic sage and seer Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, his successor Dr. Tony Nader, and non-dual teacher Rupert Spira, each in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Maharishi explains that there are different levels of prayer, each with a different degree of effectiveness:
Prayer on the verbal level
has its effectiveness;
prayer on the mental level is more effective;
prayer from the transcendental area of life
has maximum effectiveness,
because on that level
thought has a frictionless flow—
it travels instantly throughout Nature…
[Transcendental prayer] is instantly heard
and instantly responded [to]…²
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ask, and it will be given to you;
seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7 ESV
Knocking at the door of God
means that you bring your consciousness
on that omnipresent level of Being
which is infinite and which encompasses
the whole field of Creation.³
— attributed to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Recourse to higher intelligence
and higher power lies within us.
Since our nervous system allows us to transcend,
we can align ourselves
with the source of all there is…
It is the absolute, which is us.
We adopt the absolute’s perspective.
This is surrendering our small ego to the absolute.⁴
— Dr. Tony Nader
[In higher states of consciousness]
one’s life becomes the prayer,
the prayer that sings the Glory of God...
When the individual pulsates in God Consciousness…
that is the glory of God
pulsating in the world…
And this is the resonance of prayer.⁵
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Prayer is not a movement
from ourself towards God.
It is a divesting of ourself
of all the qualities
we seem to have acquired
from experience—
and the subsequent revelation
of our being as God’s infinite being.⁶
— Rupert Spira
The ultimate form of healing
is to feel
their being as your being,
that’s the real healing.
You're not really healing their body
or even their mind.
You're taking them to their true
nature.
You're enabling them to feel the wholeness
that they already are—
not the wholeness
that they’re going to become
as a result of your healing.
The wholeness that they already are,
that’s the real healing.⁷
— Rupert Spira
See also Pure Prayer: An Overview
Waves of the Ocean
[1] History of Advaita, Vedantahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Advaita_Vedanta#:~:text=Its%20history%20may%20be%20traced,Advaita%20Ved%C4%81nta%2C%20though%20the%20historical 11.02.2024
[2] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Press Conference, July 10, 2002, No Prayer Will Go In Vain, https://youtube.com/watch?v=gG1qmP2qFYg • 06.14.2018 AX 5156
[3] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Notes from Lecture, Los Angeles, 1967
[4 Nader, Tony. One unbounded ocean of consciousness (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. Kindle Edition), p. 189.
[5] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Life Becomes A Prayer, Lecture in Rishikesh, 02.02.1968
[6] Rupert Spira, The Heart of Prayer, (Sahaja Publications, 2023), p. 14 AX 7409
[7] Rupert Spira, The Ultimate Form of Healing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UXQpzrEgu0 12.27.2023
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