Oblation, Oblates – Intentions for Prayer

According to Wikipedia, oblation (Latin: oblatio, oblatum – offering, offered) was the custom of dedicating young children to a monastery so that they would be raised to become future monks. Link.

Technical notes concerning the concept and the construction of intentions.

Article: „800 Intentions for Clearing” Link
„Building Comprehensive Intentions and Prayers. A Skype Conversation on the Technique” Link 
„One-Sentence Structure for Intentions” Link

The word (–not) added to a particular word while working with intentions means that it is worthwhile to state its opposite as well, or even to find and speak any synonyms that come to mind together with their opposites during the prayer itself.

For example, instead of saying only:
–being poor, sick
it is beneficial to say:
–being poor, sick; –not being poor, sick

This allows the underlying pattern to be addressed as broadly as possible from different perspectives, including its opposite. It is also worth remembering that souls often believe and claim that they do not possess the opposite patterns—for example, that they are not idolaters in a given case.

Another example:

A woman’s soul denies ever having been a bad mother. Therefore, adding the negation –not being a bad mother may help her recognize the state she is actually in.

Being a bad mother; –not being a bad mother–

„No way! Never in my life! Those are not my patterns. What I do is my private matter.”
–This is something a soul very often says or thinks about itself.

Our own, and through us other people’s, being, and correspondingly not being, those who, as young or older children, are offered or entrusted to various temples, gurus, deities, gods, goddesses, divine mothers, demigods, holy persons, and others by parents, guardians, and not only by them, becoming, among other things, foundlings, so-called oblates, sacrificial offerings, and not only these, and experiencing all the consequences thereof

Our own, and through us other people’s, being, and correspondingly not being, those who offer or entrust their own or other people’s young or older children to various temples, gurus, deities, gods, goddesses, divine mothers, demigods, holy persons, and others, thereby making these children, among other things, foundlings, so-called oblates, sacrificial offerings, and not only these, and experiencing all the consequences thereof

Our own, and through us other people’s, being, and correspondingly not being, those who, as young or older children, are offered or entrusted to various temples and only after reaching adulthood take monastic vows, and correspondingly those who have the opportunity to leave monastic life, and not only this, and experiencing all the consequences thereof

Our own, and through us other people’s, being, and correspondingly not being, those who regard their parents’ decision as final and as preventing oblates or foundlings from leaving the monastery or religious order, and not only this, and experiencing all the consequences thereof

Our own, and through us other people’s, being, and correspondingly not being, those for whom, and through whom, our own or other people’s being foundlings or oblates becomes not only a source of many personal tragedies, but also contributes to the weakening of monastic discipline in many monasteries, where many people become monks against their will, and not only this, and experiencing all the consequences thereof

Opublikowano: 16/08/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: Religions, priests, sects, idolatry, vows.

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