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to the end. I can repeat it whole, but if you bring two sentences, then I don't know.'
It happens many times: you can repeat the whole thing more easily -- because no consciousness is involved in it; it is just a mechanical repetition, just replaying a tape-recording. It is like a gramophone. If something is asked, you cannot even remember that you know about it, because it is out of context. You remember only in the context of the whole. You can do a ritual: you can go every day to the mosque and do NAMAJ, the yoga of Islam; or you can do a Hindu ritual, or any other ritual; or you can invent your own ritual, and you can do it every day, and you can do it religiously, and it will become part of your habit. And it is not going to enhance your being at all.
Kabir says: Be spontaneous. If you are sitting silently and a prayer arises, say it -- and there is no need to repeat any formal prayer. Say whatsoever you feel like saying.
Jesus introduced a tremendously new insight into prayer. he used to call God `abha'. Christians translate `abha' as father. That is absolutely wrong: `abha' is not father. `Abha' can be translated only as papa, or dad; daddy, but not father. And it was Jesus who introduced abha; before him no Jew had ever prayed that way. God was father. To call God abha, daddy... it must have looked like a sacrilege -- but it was more spontaneous, more intimate, more personal.
To call God `father' is not right. `Father' is a very clinical term, untouched with love, not intimate, not close. Love is not flowing. `Father' is an institutional word. `Papa' has a totally different quality. Jews were very angry when they heard that Jesus called God `abha': `Who is this man? and what does he think about himself?' They could never forgive him. Jesus' prayer is very spontaneous; he had no ritual about it. Sometimes suddenly he would say to his disciples, `Now I would like to go and pray. The feeling is coming.' Sometimes amidst a crowd he was talking, teaching, and then suddenly he would say to his disciples, `Now, let us go to some lonely spot. I would like to pray.'
It is not a ritual, it is a feel. It is not being done through
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