Komboskini (Prayer Rope)

Christians on their wrists have a golden thread with a priceless pearl, for the sake of which in the gospel the merchant sold his estate and acquired wealth greater than the royal treasure.
This golden circle is a komboskini.
The circle symbolically means eternity.
Through the komboskini, the human soul comes into contact with the spiritual world, where time is replaced by eternity.
The circle is a symbol of infinity.
The komboskini is the beginning of a spiritual path that never ends; there is no limit for the approach of the soul to God.
The komboskini is the silent voice of the guardian angel, awakening a soul to prayer, immersed in the images of the passing world, as in heavy dreams.
The komboskini is a mute bell that calls our thoughts from the outside world into our own heart, as a church bell calls people to pray in the temple.
The komboskini arouses the mind from the sticky slumber of ordinary affairs.
The komboskini is a guide on the road from earth to heaven, a key that opens the doors of the heart for the name of Jesus Christ, a chain connecting the soul to the spiritual world, a staircase leading to Heavenly Jerusalem, where each knot is a step up.
The komboskini is an inseparable friend and beloved girlfriend with whom the soul talks.
It is a necklace of the spirit, a bridge from law to grace - from the rule of prayer to unceasing prayer.
Each knot  becomes a gem in the spiritual piggy bank, which will open in eternity, this is the gold with which the soul will pay off at the ordeals.
The nodules of the komboskini are the tears of prayer that the guardian angel counts.
The komboskini is a person’s hope that God is with him, even if fate threw him like a storm of snowflake to the ends of the world.
It is a joy that the name of God is close to the soul, closer than the breath of the mouth, the light of the eyes and the beating of the heart.
The movement of fingers sorting knots on the komboskini is like a bow touching the innermost strings of the soul.
Jesus prayer is the basis of all prayers, therefore the komboskini is a book of books, it is a song in the earthly path, renewing the strength of man.
This is a staff in a far wandering, the lights of the fatherly house, which the soul sees from afar; it is the return of the purity of childhood and the wisdom of old age. The komboskini is a verve dipped into hell, for which sinners clutch to prayer to extract them from the eternal darkness.
The komboskini is the joy of the ancestors that a prayer book was born in their family that can help them.
The komboskini is a ray of hope that shone in the underworld.
Komboskini - the removal of the family curse and the multiplication of parental blessings.
In the hands of the saints, the komboskini was a loop with which they strangled the demon, and a scourge with which they cast out demons.
The nodules of the komboskini are the stones about which sinful thoughts are broken - Babylonian babies.
Nodules of komboskini are stars in a human hand.
The komboskini is a life belt thrown to a man drowning in a pool of sin.
The circle of the komboskini is the fortress walls within which a person is safe.
The komboskini is a network of a hunter, in which a demon becomes entangled like a wild beast, trying to destroy prayer; it is a fiery barrier that the wolf pack that has surrounded man cannot cross.
The komboskini is a snare with which the mind catches thoughts, like birders - songbirds.
The komboskini is a spiritual path that does not end, and a song that does not stop.
The komoskinis are the enclosed gates of Eden, which are now rediscovered in the name of Jesus Christ.
The komboskini is a bowstring, and the name of Christ is burning arrows striking Satan.
The komboskini is the mouth of a friend who sucks snake venom from the wounds of the soul.
The komboskini is a wonderful plant with fragrant flowers that grew in paradise.
It is a helmet for the mind and a shield for the heart, protecting the Christian in a spiritual battle.
The nodules of the komboskini are the eyes through which a person sees the sky, and the angelic eyes that look deep into his heart.
It is a branch from the paradise tree of life that bestows immortality.
The komboskini is similar to a Cherub with a fiery sword, guarding the door of the heart from evil spirits.
The komboskini is a treasure that is acquired at a high price: for it you must give all the perishable that you acquired in the world to get the imperishable and eternal.
The komboskini is a hammer breaking a hard stone of a human heart; it is a lightning light enlightening the dark night of the soul, a miraculous battle that heals the eyes of the blind.
The komboskini is the hope in the One God, in which the hope in man disappears.
The komboskini is a deep storehouse, at the bottom of which living water of grace flows; it is an invisible stream extinguishing the fire of our passions.
Komboskini - strings of psalteries and echoes of angelic chants.
The komboskini is a new spiritual heart that opens in the chest.
The komboskini is a hundred-star thread that rotates like a sky burning with countless stars; it is a chandelier that ignites at the touch of fingers on the bundles of thread, a liturgist who ignites in the name of Jesus Christ, like a wick from a flame.
Komboskini - a book with ancient writings, which always opens up new things.
The komboskini is like the rod of Moses, which turned into a serpent to devour the poisonous snakes created by the Egyptian magi - pride and carnal passions nesting in the human heart.
The komboskini is the staff of Moses, who turned the bitter source of Measure - the sorrows of life - into a spring, exuding pure streams of water - spiritual comfort.
The komboskini is a world healing all wounds of the soul.
Komboskini nodules are wheat seeds that become ears in the future life.
The komboskini is the hilt of a sword in the hand of a warrior, always ready for a spiritual battle.
The komboskini is the boundary between the two kingdoms - heaven and earth.
The komboskini is the wings that lift the mind up and hold it above the ground: when the prayer stops the komboskini stops and hardens in the hand, and the mind, like a shot bird, falls to the ground.
The komboskini is the artist’s brush, painting with paints from the light of the Face of God in the soul.
The komboskini is a chisel imprinting the name of Jesus Christ on the tablets of the heart; it is a golden pen that writes God's commandments deep down.
The komboskini is a knife that cleans the scrolls of memory from the dirt of sins.
Komboskini - Sinai, where God appears to man, a burning compartment, in which God reveals His name.
The komboskini is a window to the sky and a door to the innermost abode of the heart.
This is the silence of the soul - Eve - before the seductive speech of the serpent; it is the firmness of the mind - Adam - before Eve's passionate words - the feelings of a fallen soul.
The komboskini is the renunciation of the soul from leather robes, sewn from animal skins, and putting on the former garments of the light.
The komboskini is the weeping for the lost Eden on earth and the joy of gaining a heavenly paradise.
The komboskini is the casket where the treasure of all treasures is stored - the name of Jesus Christ.
If you have enemies who do not want to reconcile with you, then prayer on a komboskini like the spring sun will melt the ice of their hearts and make enemies friends.
If your soul is barren like a desert, then the komboskini will become streams of rain, from which sand and stones will be covered with flowers.
The komboskini is a bolt on the doors of the inner cell, so that seductive images of the world do not penetrate there like night thieves.
The komboskini is a curtain for the eyes and a lock for the tongue.
This is oblivion of the dark past and renunciation of the foggy future; it is a liberation from passionate memories and anxious worries about tomorrow.
The kombuskini is giving oneself and loved ones to the providence of God.
The komboskini is the spiritual path from Jericho to Jerusalem from the sworn city to the city of God.
The komboskini a bridge thrown across the banks of the Jordan, on which one out of a thousand can pass.
The komboskini is a ray of light that flashed on Tabor; it is the language by which the soul speaks with celestials, it is the vision of the invisible and the hearing of the silent.
The komboskini is a secret feat performed in the heart where the spirit dwells.
These are scales on which the mind weighs every word as a jeweler of a grain of gold before pronouncing it.
The komboskini is compassion for the sinner and a hand extended to the fallen.
The komboskini is a belt that tightens the womb - carnal passions.
The komboskini is a treasure that a person carries with him to the grave: grave diggers and thieves do not burrow into this spiritual wealth.
During God's dispensation and despondency, prayer on a komboskini is like a path through the desert, where the sky seems to be studded with copper, and the earth glows like a furnace, when the mind hardly speaks the words of prayer, when thoughts and feelings are like dead ashes, and only the will says: go, do not leave prayers.
The komboskini is a vision of the world in its future transformation.
The komboskini is the rod of Moses, which divided the Red Sea: with a rosary in his hand and a prayer in his heart, a person walks along the bottom of the sea of ​​life, like a stone road.
The komboskini is a seal with the name of Jesus attached to the heart.
The komboskini is the gospel that is always in the hand: whoever prays with the komboskini reads the Word of God at all times in every place.
The komboskini is a spiritual relationship with the saints. This is the wind blowing the fire of love for God, the underground waters that nourish the roots of spiritual plants.
The knots are the gifts of the three magicians: frankincense - unceasing prayer, myrrh - the killing of passions, gold - the name of Jesus Christ.
The komboskini is the flight of the soul from the tyranny and passions of the world, similar to the flight of Lot from the doomed Sodom.
The komboskini is the return of the prodigal son to his Heavenly Father.

Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin)