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October 305 Dwapara

Dear Ones,

As we continue our prayers for peace, I will send you items that may be helpful. This month, I am sending you this wonderful piece by Paramhansa Yogananda, entitled, Healing the Sick World, as well as a special link to “Searchlight of Love” an inspired, guided meditation. It is my joy to share these tools with you as we explore how to send healing energy to the world.

Many of you wrote to thank me for the efforts to include this type of prayer in the ministry. Our Ananda Village healing prayer group has often prayed for various geographic areas when healing was needed for one reason or another. I would like to offer you a detailed account of what we have learned thus far, but for now, it will have to come out in bits and pieces in this newsletter. I strive to pray from a place of wholeness rather than polarity. For instance, I’ve had to lead prayers knowing that in the prayer group there may be opposing opinions on the political front. So, we pray in such a way that reaches above mere opinion. This is most easily done by considering the end result that most of us want:: a peaceful, happy, healthy world.

The tools available to us, as a prayer group, are limited in number, yet infinite in potential strength. If we take our prayer techniques deep enough, they can have a profound effect. However, we are truly still infants in the realm of prayers for the world. But if we put one foot in front of the other, keeping our hearts and minds guided by the great Masters, we will truly begin to grow in our ability to serve the highest good.

Frank Laubach (1884-1970), a modern Christian mystic, was a missionary in the Philippines retiring to the USA later in his life. He started a prayer group for the world, and discovered something very important. He said, “It is uncanny what good can happen through such prayers, but we found you have to keep it up every day.”

Our prayer group also found it was “uncanny” what could happen through such prayers, and we realized it somehow supports the higher Self of those who are making decisions, even if we do not pray for them by name. Normally we don’t try to “tell the wind which way to blow” – because the best prayers are said before you even know there is a specific problem! They must be happening in “real time” as decisions are being made; that is why they need to be said every day. I am still learning how to juggle this level of prayer along with a family and a ministry, and that’s one reason I invited all of you to join me in this grand experiment! Every little bit helps. There comes a point when a deep saint praying high on a mountain can do more for the world than all other “activism” combined, but we, as a group, can also begin to "move mountains" by developing that divine connection step-by-step.

In closing, I feel the best basic prayer is to send blessings to the whole world, and then to a specific area (for instance – peace in Iraq) and then, in closing, send blessings to the whole world again. This helps keep the energy balanced, and as harmonious as possible. There are so many areas of dire need, but I wanted to concentrate on Iraq because it is such an international hotspot right now.

May your prayers be deeply blessed. May peace flow through you like a healing stream of grace, blessing all truth seeking souls.

Joy to you,

Mary Kretzmann
Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry
 Healing the Sick World
BY PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
(East-West, June 1933)

Healing the Sick World
by Paramhansa Yogananda, East-West magazine, June 1933.

Expanding the Walls of Churches

The wall of creed and the blinding greed for gold has divided human hearts. They live behind these self-erected prison walls of dogma and have lost sight of the Altar of Oneness on which Thy Temple of omnipresence is built. Let us pulverize these walls of money, name, power, and dogma so that we may view the floor of Thy Universal Temple of Oneness and gather together there to offer unto Thee the chorus of our united love and the hymns of our hearts.

Let us call all Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Mohammedan, and Hindu Temples by the one name–“Altar of God, or Sanctuary of Our One Father.” Let us call the different teachings by one name–“Sermons of Wisdom.” Let us call all different races, the brown, the yellow, the red, and the white, by one name–“Human Brothers,” children of our Father-Mother-God. Let us call all countries–“United States of the World.” Let us call our government–“International Government of Truth.”

Let us all train the soldiers of our hearts–love, faith, kindness, and understanding, and declare a world war against selfishness, church bigotry, industrial and individual greed, unkindness, territorial aggression, race and class prejudice, armaments, international distrust, poverty, sickness, spiritual ignorance, and blind, excluding patriotism. Let us have the world policed by the guardian angel of true brotherhood, and let us have spiritual education of our hearts.

Let us live simply outside, but let us be supremely happy within. Let us learn to build mansions of wisdom in the unfading garden of peace, which blooms with the million-hued blossoms of beautiful soul qualities.

Let us learn to use the aerial planes of imagination and intuitive vision to take flight in His Kingdom of Infinite Beauty and Bliss. Let us soar in the Ark of Silence over the peaks of the highest wisdom, and let us roam in the land of endless beauty. Let us get rich richer by acquiring the great wealth of peace, and become peace-millionaires.
Let us raise our own paradise, which lies buried in our fancy and let us bring the Living God of Pure Joy onto the altar of our hearts and worship Him there with the flowers of immortality and deathless devotion.

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Search Light of Love

This wonderful, guided meditation is very short, yet profound. This can become the foundation of your efforts to send beautiful, healing vibrations to the whole earth., and to specific areas of need. Sometimes I listen to it many times in succession for I love the healing flow.... (Mary Kretzmann)

IYou can also find it on the CD, Metaphysical Meditations Voice of Swami Kriyananda, reading words by Paramhansa Yogananda. Available from Crystal Clarity Publishers for $10.95 1-800-424-1055

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