Monday 4th August 2014
Why do we Pray?
Prayer is an invocation .Through
cheerful prayer, we learn to rise above our lower impulses and invoke the noble
and divine impulses that are essential in all of us. At the present stage of
our inner growth and evolution, living in our own little egos, we, in our
unconscious vanities , may come to live a life of thoughtless immoralities
during our day-to-competitive existence . this influence from our lower
impulses is not altogether easily and readily escapable.
Scorched by such repeated volcanic
eruptions of lower impulses, our minds become desert of sorrow and pain with no
sheltering oasis of peace or joy. Prayer , however, brings in a cold breeze of
peace and showers reviving rains of joy to transform the dreary wastelands of
our hearts into a perfumed garden of bliss. Prayers is power-invoke it and be
blessed to bless others around you in your community wherever you are.
By invoking the power of true prayer
, we discover the Lord, the supreme Pramashvara, in our own hearts , as the
higher . consciousness, the atman. Man is essentially divine. He is veiled God
in action. To unveil this divine essence in ourselves by discarding all the
false matter in us, to reject our identification with our body mind intellect
and to invoke the pure Awareness that shines in the depths of ourselves is the
highest peak of prayer, the fabulous summit of mediation.
True prayer is an innovation, an
attempt to call up and to express the higher , divine essence in us. By rituals
through chanting and singing through surrender and love, through dedication and
prostration, through congregational prayers in specially dedicated and
sanctified temples of God, we learn to give up our lesser nature and assert our
nobler and diviner possibilities, . Through this process of innovation , we
experience a new expansion=at first in passing moments. But son enough , such
moments come to stay with us, reminding us of our true nature, reviving us from
all our inner conflicts, leading us into an ampler fields of fuller
satisfaction in life.
In fact devotion is discovered
through true prayer.. through prayer alone is devotion depended through prayer
again is devotion fulfilled. To turn ardently our hearts unto Him. The Lord, to
offer our all at His altar in our infinite love , to bow down in total
surrender at His feet. To cry in the joyous ecstasy of the flooding love in our
hearts-this is prayer at its fullest. Where individuality is thus merged in His
sacred temple of love, the universal vision, the experience of the infinite in
us, unfolds.
Now ,close your eyes, relax your
muscles, smile in joyous abandon in your mind. Listen and in true prayer
contemplate again and again on these words: unattached am I with my body,
unattached am I with my mind, unattached am I with my intellect again and gain.
I am of the nature of pure Consciousness. The Awareness Divine. –Curtsey
Tapovan Prasad
Quote from the True charm and power
of Vedanta
These ideas of self-conquest, of the
power of concentration and mediation, are not peculiarly Indian, in every
religion, whenever there has been any true growth of spiritual thought, you
will find that it has come from an indrawn, meditatitative life. Even materials
scientists, how much they have to concentrate on a problem before they can
solve it; for concentration always throws light and give greater power.
Physical concentration is necessary to gain health of body; mental
concentration is necessary to sharpen our intellect; and when we have practiced
these two well and with discrimination, there will come a time when we can
direct all our forces spiritual regeneration. Then the things which seem to us.
Impossible today will become absolute realities. Our doubts will vanish of
their own accord, for where there is sunlight there cannot be any darkness.
All the imperfection and limitation
which we feel in our body and mind we can remove by not constantly thinking of
this immediate apparent, physical existence, but by joining our thoughts with
the Higher Source, the Fountainhead of life and energy. When we can remain
focuses there, we shall be able to go on doing our duties without feeling any
reaction. That is one of the great secrets of the Indian Teachers. Through the
ages they have taught that man can make his work a recreation; and that if he
will connect himself with the Higher and keep his motive lofty, his work
instead of exhausting him will bring him even greater strength. It is not
necessary for us to retire to a corner or become inactive to restore our
vitality. If we will but learn to practice balance and moderation in all our
activity, we shall enjoy true health of body and mind and shall attain
spiritual illumination and freedom.
IF HE EXIST
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