A universal prayer, a wonderful prayer of aspiration and surrender.
March 19, 1914
O LORD, eternal Teacher, Thou whom we can neither name nor understand, but whom we would realise more and more at every moment, enlighten the intelligence, illumine our hearts, transfigure the consciousness; may everybody awaken to the true life, escape from egoism and its train of sorrow and anguish, in order to take refuge in Thy divine and pure Love, source of all peace and all happiness. My heart, so full of Thee, seems to expand to infinity, and my intelligence wholly enlightened with Thy Presence shines like the purest diamond. Thou art the marvellous magician, he who transfigures everything, makes beauty emerge out of ugliness, light out of darkness, clear water out of mud, Knowledge out of ignorance and kindness out of egoism.
In Thee, by Thee, for Thee we live and Thy law is the supreme master of our life.
May Thy will be done in every place, may Thy peace reign over the whole earth!
