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166 This is the complete text. The first part is the prayer for consciousness that we are living not merely in the world of earth, air and water, but in the real world of personality, of love. And when we realize we are in this love—then we feel the disharmony of our lives apart from love. We do not feel it till we are conscious of our relation to our Father. But when we are conscious, we feel the discord so strongly that it smites us and we feel it to be death. It becomes intolerable when we are in the very slightest degree conscious that we are surrounded by the love of our Father.

Then comes the prayer for freedom from things and for the highest good—i.e. freedom in God.

And then comes the conclusion. We bow to Him in whom we all enjoy life, in whom is the welfare of the soul, in whom is the good.

Om, Shantih, Shantih, Shantih. Om.