This prayer by its very nature is universal, the necessary element of Sanatan Dharma or eternal religion. Not only is there one absolute eternal support of all creatures, sentient and insentient, but that absolute intelligence is the true reality, the source of all that exists and is best described as Sat-Chit-Ananda or Absolute Existence-Absolute Consciousness-Absolute Joy. It is beyond all duality or ignorance. It is beyond name and form and totally free from attachment and aversion. It is our very Self.

Any name or form assigned to the Absolute is a concession to our limited intellect and conceptions. Just as all rivers merge into one mighty sheet of waters known as the ocean, all gods -- whatever their names and forms assigned by limited religions and their propagators -- fall short of the one true reality. Only one mighty Creator can rule the hearts of all creatures equally and with true justice.

We are part and parcel of such a Creator. By nature we possess these very same qualities, just as a drop of water possesses all the qualities of its parent ocean. Human beings with pure hearts alone can realize their real nature beyond the body, senses, mind, intellect and ego. This alone is the purpose of each and every human being, now or later, according to true saints and the Gita.

-- Swami Radhanandaji