PRAYER
- is depending on God for help in distress.
- is giving an opportunity to God to comfort the devotee.
- is expecting God to decide what is best for you when you are in a dilemma.
- lightens the heaviness of your heart by opening it to God.
Man learns to pray through despair.
Prayer is
- not asking, but a communion with God through single-minded devotion.
- nearness to God. It is tuning of the mind with God.
- fixing the mind on God and meditating on Him.
- surrendering oneself to God completely, and melting the mind and ego in
silence, in God.
Prayer represents a mystic state when the individual consciousness is absorbed in
God. It is an uplifting of the soul to God, an act of love and adoration to Him. It
is worship and glorification of God. It is thanksgiving to God for all His
blessings.
Prayer is
- an invocation, a calling forth of spiritual forces ever flowing through the
human heart, mind and soul.
- a great spiritual force that is as real as force of gravity or attraction. the
very soul and essence of religion, the very core of man's life.
No man can live without prayer.
Prayer does not demand high intelligence or eloquence. God wants your heart when
you pray. Even a few words from a humble, pure soul, though illiterate, will appeal
to the Lord more than the eloquent flowing words of an orator or a learned man.
The child does not know grammar and pronunciation. It utters some sounds, but the
mother understands! When mother understands the language of the heart, what to say
of the inner witness? He knows what you wish to say. Even if you make mistakes in
your prayer to Him, even if there are mistakes in the Mantras you recite, if you
are sincere, if the prayer comes from your heart, He listens to it, because He
understands the language of your heart.
WHOSE PRAYER IS HEARD ?
Prayer should spring from the heart and should not be mere lip-homage. Empty prayer
is like sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. Prayer that comes from a sincere, pure
heart is at once heard by the Lord. The prayer of a cunning, crooked, wicked man is
never heard.
God ever responds to the appeal of His sincere devotees. It is only the insincere
man who says that God is deaf. God is ever watchful of the distress signals of His
children. Open your heart to Him without reservation and the response will be
instantaneous.
THE PRACTICE OF PRAYER:
Pray for His grace. "Thy will be done, my Lord! I want nothing for myself." This
shall be thy prayer. For you know not what is good for you; you may be asking for
trouble, and praying for perdition. Pray for Grace and that His righteousness might
descend on the soul.
Greet the dawn of the day and bid adieu to the setting sun with a prayer of
thankfulness- firstly for a fresh day granted, and lastly for His Grace received.
Thus shall your life be blessed and thus will you radiate His blessings to all
around you.
Benefits of prayer
Prayer is a trusty companion along the weary path to liberation. It is the rock to
which a man can cling when he is drowning in the ocean of births and deaths. It
frees him from the fear of death and brings him near to God, making him feel the
divine Consciousness and His essential immortal nature.
PRAY AND PROSPER:
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Twine yourself around Him for support. You will be free from the injuries of
life. Follow this method and reap the harvest. Pray and prosper. None in this world
will save you. It is God alone who loves you most. Call on Him and invoke His
mercy. Pray fervently from this very second. You will attain eternal bliss.
A TRUE PRAYER:
A true prayer is the expression of that attitude of the human mind which arouses
the divine nature in man and makes it govern the lower, selfish or animal nature by
which we are directed in our ordinary life to perform selfish acts. According to
Vedanta, lip-prayer is no prayer at all. True prayer is always mental. It is the
earnest longing of the heart.
Whenever we think in words, and we mentally repeat the name of the Ideal
concentrating our mind on it, that prayer is the true prayer. It is another form of
meditation. And when such a meditation or true prayer leads to the realization of
the Divine Spirit, then it is said that prayer is heard. True prayer is like a
ladder by which the individual soul ascends to the domain of transcendental
Reality.
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