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Author, Father M. Devadas

1. Praise of Divine Attributes

OPENING PRAYER


Oh Lord the Triune God, we praise You for attributes for our benefit throughout our lives.


You have bestowed Your life and light in us.


You are manifesting Your divine love towards us.


You are providing Your strength to us in times of our weakness.


You are providing help to us to correct ourselves form wrong ways because You are just and lawful.


You are sanctifying us by Your holiness.


You are strengthening our faith with You invisible majesty. So we adore You for Your manifold divine blessed qualities.


We offer our grateful praises for Your constant endeavour to bestow us with Your divine qualities.


We find that there is infinity in Your eternity. In Your love there is Justice. In Your Justice there is Holiness. In Your Holiness there is power. In Your Invisible Majesty there is Revelation.


In Your one divine quality all Your divine attributes are embedded and manifested. So when we recognize that You have given us one of Your attributes in full, we understand that You have endowed us with all of Your divine qualities. When we recognize that You are without a beginning and without an end. We understand that there is neither beginning nor end to Your attributes also.


As we cannot separate the three Persons i.e. Father, Son and the Holy Spirit in the one God whom we worship so also we cannot separate the divine qualities from one another.


When we think in our minds on one of Your attributes, all Your other divine qualities will enter into our minds in a bunch. All Your divine qualities are equally prevalent in You. We praise You because You desire to stamp in us all Your qualities permanently.


Just as the heat, light and shape together make into a flame of fire so also the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit make into one God whom we adore. When we remove even one element from the flame of fire, the entire flame will extinguish even though the other two remain.


When we reject anyone of Your divine attributes, it will lead to rejection of all Your other divine qualities. When You punish one person according to Your justice we dislike it. In the same manner when You love us why do we like It? Our way of reasoning is improper and Your way of reasoning is Holy. So we salute You.


When one of us acquires all Your divine qualities by waiting on at Your holy feet, except You the Holy and almighty God why does He approach others?


Oh God grant us Your grace that al Your divine qualities should be established in us constantly and consistently.

Oh merciful God, You have given us the choice of freedom to use liberally all your divine qualities as much as we wish. Even if You have given all the other divine qualities except the quality of freedom all other qualities will be of no use. Hence, we thank You because You have given that quality of freedom as well.


When You have bestowed us with all your divine qualities, in other words, when we have received them they would be like a bunch of glowing (burning) candles on a candle stick. We offer our praises for that. When put together, the flame of one candle will kindle the other candles, and the light of each candle will mingle with one another, not differentiating apart. In the same manner, all Your divine qualities are interlocked together.


Likewise make all your divine qualities interwoven in us safely and permanently.

You have lit our lamps with Your lamp, just as the lighter (caretaker) of the lamps keeps the lamps glowing, and Oh Lord, make our lamps glow continually without extinguishing.


You have already told that "I am the Light of the world", We notice that You have put Your light in every one of this world, and so we thank You.


You have said unto the multitudes "You are the light of the world". So we recognize that You have put your light into us, for this gift we thank You. Our Father, men in the past have seen the light in You. Now we pray that You enable others to see the light which You have put into us.


We understand that the light includes the combination of all Your divine qualities.


Lord by His creation and by His craftsmanship has kept the light in us. He says that "Let your light shine brightly". Hence, in the word of God He commanded us to arise and shine forth (Isaiah 60:1).


Oh Lord, give us strength to show our light to others, so that we can exhibit our divine qualities to them. During the switch is "off", there is light in it; but it is not visible. When switch is "on" that light will shine forth. Likewise when we switch on with our wisdom, the divine qualities which were implanted by God Himself in us, the divine qualities of God will come out.


Oh God, when anyone of the divine qualities with which You have endowed us diminishes, we pray that it will not be extinguished, instead restore and revive it. When one of the four lamps diminishes, the Master (caretaker) will kindle it again.

Summary of Prayer:

Detail: As I have already mentioned if one lamp extinguishes; the remaining lamps will automatically extinguish. It will happen in the lifetime. It will not happen in the age of Grace. Are we not finding a single good quality even in a culprit or thief as well!


Test:- Examine yourself to find out which divine quality of God still remain even till today. What do you have in you? Love, Justice or long suffering? Please don't say that you are eternal but say you are everlasting. Examine yourself whether you have the spiritual life in addition to the physical life with which you deal. Do you have God's love in you, or is it diminishing? By practising meditation constantly in His presence; these divine qualities will grow gradually. If they are not growing, examine what is defective in your practice of meditation in His presence. If divine qualities are not growing at all, Sannidhi gathering should be removed.


Please Follow these prayer steps, remembering all the divine qualities.