Let’s Pray…

Today, I do not intent to write anything myself. Instead, I am just putting these wonderful comments by my anonymous friend. My heart is filled with immense joy after reading this. I bet yours will be.

Thank you friend for answering my prayer…

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Divine conversations and speechless prayers signify that a connection is happening with deeper realms of consciousness. In that connectedness, some of the most fundamental truths come through. It is accessible to anyone who sees the ego as separate from one’s existence.

Many a times when our inner or outer state is devastated, we tend to hide things in prayer. Instead of reporting exactly our inner state we try to patch up, or ask for removing it, or get a subtle ego of being able to bear the suffering. The moment we expose our inner state to the infinite without any judgments, a loving embrace transmutes the suffering into peace and a subtle feeling of joy.

Faith dawns when we know our surrendered ness. It’s only our feeling of insecurity and uncertainty that keeps us away from faith. With prayer they start to fade away.

Surrendered prayer ends into meditation. It is said that we should pray before starting meditation.

I should clarify here that my personal experience is quite limited. But an intuitive guidence in us says yes when we listen to such truths.

Praying our heart out…

I got one good response for my last post on prayer. The writer specified many points on prayer. He asked me to write my views on that. Here is the post with italics showing his/her views.

I have read some more thoughts on prayer, would be great if you can elaborate on it:-

- Many a times it turns into conversations.

Conversation with God or conversation with the deeper part of your Self. Here, you only say and you only listen, but the source of these words is the intelligence vast, beyond thoughts and mind. It is the connectedness with whole.

- Many a times it happens without words.

Words are just external manifestation of your inner feelings. You need not say peace to be in peace. Same way, you need not say words while praying. We use words only to mould our prayer. When Spirit reaches high, words fade away. When there are no words in prayer, it just becomes Samadhi itself.

Praying is surrendering yourself to NOW. That can be felt actually even by being totally silent. No words, no thoughts, no emotions!! Only peace. What a prayer!

- Prayers should be honest, and hide nothing. at times our own deeper thoughts and intents which we don’t realize are there get expressed in it.

If it is not honest, it is not prayer. If you hide something, it is not prayer. As simple as that! Prayer is having conversation with your deeper part of self. Sometimes, we get what we don’t realize before. But many a times, we become prepared to acknowledge what we are able to realize long before but unable to accept it. And as I said earlier, you are ready for prayer means you are ready to accept those things. And once you accept them, it’s a miracle! They no longer trouble you the way they were. That is, you surrender yourself to NOW and stop producing negativity. Love, hope, faith and peace then follow naturally.

- Words in the prayer should be our own.

I will put it in another way. You can’t pray with anything that is not your own! Words can be same but certainly the emotion and intensity should be yours only. If you can realize that with someone’s words, no problem. But if not, then those words are of no use. Moral of the story? Do it sincerely.

- It gives a certain feeling of connectedness, of a deep peace which situations can’t explain.

Certainly. Experience it.

A story I heard on assurance that prayer gives:-

A Rajput’s son got married. After the marriage they had to cross the river to get back home. On the way there was a storm. The ship started to fumble. Everyone was afraid and started to panic the bride also got frightened, but when she looked at her husband, he was calm and peaceful.

She asked him, “Why are you so calm when death is so near us?”

He pulled out his sword and put it on the bride’s neck and asked her, “Are you frightened of this sword?”

She said “why should I be? It’s my soul mate’s sword”

He said “in the same way, why should I be when this storm is my soul mate’s sword. He knows what is best for me. If it is best for me to live, the body shall survive, if my progress might be better with a new one, then this will perish.

Yes, this story really points out where faith can lead us to? But of course, this faith can only be the result of countless prayers.

Thank you, Mr./Ms/Mrs anonymous for your post. I am praying for some more thoughtful inputs.

AUM…

The importance of prayer

It is what we are taught from our childhood. It is what we have been doing since our childhood. And wondering, what actually is prayer ? Is there any logic behind it ? how does it work?

Well, in truth, the prayer is not for God. It is for us. When we pray, the first transformation happens is inside. Our clots of ego start getting broken because prayer brings hope, faith and in turn peace with it. Without them, it is everything but prayer. And with hope, faith and peace, you again make genuine effort to understand God’s plan and your role in it.

Does God answer our prayer?

Yes, if we are able to break our ego patterns and bring forth hope, faith and peace, we are succeed and our prayer is answered.

No, if we still want to carry same shattered mind frame, and wait for some magic to change our physical and mind situation without making effort our self, we are failed and our prayer is not answered.

Most of the time, it is not only the prayer itself, but the path towards prayer is also very important. If you start to pray, it means you were able to convince your ever-logical mind that you are ready for prayer, half the work is done. It is like convincing yourself that you are ready for getting healed, getting blessed and getting connected. That conviction is very important. People sometimes are just unable of convincing themselves about the importance of prayer and thus never do one. The remaining part is relatively simple. You genuinely urge God to give you enough strength to make you succeed. Your object of prayer may be anything, as far as you are ready to work for it. If you, however, want some magic to happen and get your work done, the chances are high that you will be disappointed. It is very important to understand that the reward of your prayer, if you want any, is nothing but the hope, faith and peace of mind that you achieve by praying. And Alas ! What a great reward it is !! There can never be any better rewards than this.

We learn to pray in course. Our prayers keep changing. I remember one nice story about prayer.

Once, few devotees asked master. “All these years, we have watched you praying. What do you talk to God about ? What are the important things we should be praying for ?”

The master smiled.

“in the beginning, I had the fervor of youth, which believes in the impossible. In those days, I used to kneel before God and ask him to give me the strength to change humankind. Gradually, I came to see that the task was beyond me. Then I started praying to God to help me change the world around me.”

“Well, we can certainly vouch for the fact that part of your wish was granted,” said one of his devotees. “for you have helped many people by your example.”

“Yes, I have helped many people by my example, and yet I knew that I had not yet found the perfect prayer. Only now, at the end of my life, have I come to understand what I should have been praying for from the start.”

“And what is that?”

“To be given the ability to change myself.”

By praying, we come close to ourself and thus, in turn come close to God within us.
May God bless us all…