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160 So I do not know other things about God, but I know this, Thou art my Father.

Let all my consciousness burn like fire with this idea, Thou art my Father. Every day let this be the one centre of all my thoughts, that the Supreme Person ruling all the Universe is my Father.

Pita no bodhi. Let me wake up in the light of this great truth—Thou art my Father.

Like a naked child let me place all my thoughts in Thy arms for Thy care and protection through the day.

And then Namah.

My complete self-surrender will become true. This is the highest joy of man's love.

Namaste, namah to Thee—let it be true.

I am related to the Infinite "I am" and so my true attitude is not that of pride, or self-satisfaction, but of self-surrender. Namaste'stu.

I have not finished the whole of the text which my boys use for their prayer and meditation.

You must remember that this prayer has been gathered from different places of our oldest Scriptures—the Vedas. They are not to be found in one consecutive order in any one place. But my father, who had dedicated his life to the worship of God, collected these words from the