The Prayer Meditation invites a direct, bodily merging with universal energy. Best done at night in a darkened room, it can also be practiced in the morning—provided you allow a full fifteen minutes of rest afterward. This safeguard is essential; without it, the depth of the experience may leave you feeling as if in a pleasant stupor, "drunk" on energy.
With palms turned to the sky and head lifted, you become a conduit for existence to flow through. As the current pours down your arms, a gentle trembling arises—like a leaf trembling in a breeze. You allow, even help, this vibration to spread through your whole body, surrendering to whatever unfolds. In this simple, embodied prayer, merging with energy changes you—and, through you, the felt texture of existence itself.
Phase Instructions
Preparation and Setting
Choose a quiet, darkened room. It is best to do this practice at night and go to sleep immediately afterward. If you prefer to do it in the morning, ensure you can rest for 15 minutes afterward; this rest is necessary to integrate the experience and avoid feeling "drunk" or in a stupor.
Open to the Flow
Raise both hands toward the sky, palms uppermost. Lift your head slightly. Without forcing anything, simply feel existence flowing into you from above. Let the breath remain natural as you receive.
Allow the Trembling
As the energy flows down your arms, notice a gentle tremor begin. Be like a leaf in a breeze—trembling. Allow it; help it. Let the trembling spread and your whole body begin to vibrate with energy. Do not control or shape the movement; give your body full permission to respond.
Surrender and Completion
Continue letting the vibration move you and simply allow whatever happens to happen. When the energy naturally settles or you feel complete, end the practice. If at night, lie down and go to sleep immediately. If in the morning, lie down or sit comfortably and rest, doing nothing, for a full 15 minutes before resuming activity.
Core Benefits
- Direct bodily merging with universal energy
- Enhances energy flow through the body
- Brings a sense of surrender and acceptance
- Induces a deep state of rest and relaxation
- Transforms personal and existential experience
What Osho Said About This Technique
So one has to go on leaving the mind and moving into the unknown again and again. It is an eternal journey. So simply sit, wait for the unknown, and if something starts happening in your body energy, allow it. After a few days you will see tremendous happenings. You will not be able to believe what is happening. Don't get scared, don't be scared... allow it. You may feel jolts of energy, shocks of energy shaking your very foundation. You will feel a great trembling arising in you, a great shaking. And it will be coming from nowhere. You will see that you are not doing it. You will be able to see absolutely that you are not in your own control. Something has come and possessed you, something has descended upon you -- you are no more yourself. A greater self has come in contact.Read the full discourse →
Mediation is the only true prayer. All else that goes on in the name of prayer is mind stuff. It is utterly useless. You can go on talking to God for lives together, but you will never be heard. Real prayer is not verbal. It has to be out of silence. Silence is simply silence, it does not belong to any religion. It certainly belongs to the religious heart. It is the very center of the religious heart but it is not part of any dogma, doctrine, church. A really religious person is free of all Christianity, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism. Because "isms" as such are something in the mind. They are ideology, philosophy, thinking. And thinking is never silent, thinking is a always a turmoil. Silence means a thought-less stillness. When there is no thought in you, when nothing stirs, you are in prayer.Read the full discourse →
Often when you are talking to us, waves of energy come to us opening our hearts and bringing tears of gratitude. You have said that you fill us whenever we are open, but often this phenomenon happens to many people at the same time, like shaktipat. Why do you not give us this wonderful experience more often?
When you feel trembling coming to you, cooperate with it. Help the trembling to grow more, because the more you tremble, the more is the possibility for the infinite energy to descend in you, because your own inner energy becomes dynamic. When you are dynamic, you can meet the dynamic force; when you are static, you cannot meet the dynamic force. When you tremble, energy is created within you. Energy attracts more energy. Become a vessel -- empty, filled, overflowing. When you feel now it is too much, unbearable, the fall is too much and you cannot bear it any more, bow down to the earth, kiss the earth and remain silent there as if you are pouring the energy into the earth. Take from the sky; give back to the earth. You become just a medium in between. Bow down completely; become empty again. When you feel now you…Read the full discourse →
the moment you become one with light, fountains of bliss begin to burst... every hair, the heartbeat, each breath is filled with bliss... experience bliss, experience... all around is bliss... outside-inside there is bliss... drowned in bliss... all around is bliss... outside-inside there is bliss... drowned in bliss... become one... Two minutes... bliss... bliss... bliss... every hair has filled with bliss... bliss... bliss... bliss... the density of bliss itself becomes the presence of the Paramatman... only by going deep into bliss does the experience of the Lord begin... He is present all around — here and now... experience... become one with bliss and His presence begins... experience the Paramatman present — all around, here and now... experience the Paramatman present — all around, only He is... outside-inside only He is... experience the Lord present — all around He alone surrounds... we have drowned in His very ocean and become one...Read the full discourse →
Then satsang with the true happens by itself. Now understand two things about the night’s meditation. The night meditation is a practice of tratak — but very unique and very powerful. In the first stage, for fifteen minutes you will gaze at me without blinking. (Sit first — understand first...) Gaze at me fixedly. Do not blink. Do not let the lids fall, even if tears begin to flow. Keep the eyes wholly on me. Both hands are to be raised high during meditation, and you will stand to meditate. I will signal you with my hand. When I signal, you must jump with your total energy — so that the hidden energy within you becomes active. Keep your eyes affixed to me so a link is made with me, so a relationship, a bridge, is created.Read the full discourse →
Common Questions
The best time to practice is at night in a darkened room. It can also be practiced in the morning with a full fifteen minutes of rest afterward.
Resting for fifteen minutes after the meditation is essential to prevent feeling like you are in a pleasant stupor due to the depth of the experience.
You should have your palms turned to the sky and your head lifted, acting as a conduit for the energy to flow through you.
A gentle trembling, like that of a leaf in the breeze, may arise and spread through the whole body.
The main goal is to become a conduit for existence, merging with universal energy and transforming both personal and existential experience.