Prayers on the Beads of Love - Paramhansa Yogananda

I tell my prayers on the beads of love, strung with my devotion. I direct them beyond all names - God, Spirit, Brahma, Christ, Shankara, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed - for all names are Thine. And I shun no name, for I know Thou dwellest in all forms.

In Thy cosmic dramas on the stage of time, and in Thy myriad acting roles, Thou hast assumed innumerable names. Behind them all, too, I know Thy one, changeless name: Eternal, Conscious, Self-existent Bliss.

Many times have I played with Thee. Many songs of Thine have I sund. On the ocean-bosom of Thy eternal life I've been nurtured by The as a tiny drop of life. I remember Thy warm touch through the centuries whenever, feeling the chill of separation, I turned homeward to Thee. Again, in this daylight of remembrance, let me play with Thee. Let me sing Thy songs.

Excerpted from, Whispers from Eternity