In our life, we all do pray to GOD/Nature or we pray to whatever we revere to. Have you observed your prayers? Have you ever noticed what are you asking? What are your demands? Do we pay attention to our words and its effects? Sometimes ‘yes’, we are aware and sometimes not.
When you just blabber something without any deep rooted intention, without any feelings then it is not prayer, it just becomes chattering of mind. Such things will never get answered. When something arises from deep within, something really you want or when you become complete helpless in your situations then finally you surrender yourself and what comes out of you becomes Prayer. It has energy behind it, it has meaning and it gets really fulfilled. If you observe, most of our prayers are answered but problem is when we are enjoying fruits of our prayers we do not remember that we had prayed for this and it has been answered.
When people land up in difficult situations, facing adverse situations they simply say to others “GOD is testing me”. Many times they forget that all are fruits of their karma (actions). They simply put it on GOD and blame him. When they face good situations, success then most of the people say, it is because of me, my hardwork. At this time handful of them say it is because of God’s blessings. Infact many of people end up testing GOD only…Simple story can explain this..
“Once upon a time there was a Village and all the people, families in that village were happy, rich and living in blissful knowledge. In that village there was a very rich man, richest among all and pious as well. One day he thought I must do good to others and prayed to GOD for blessings. He prayed ‘O GOD I want to utilize my wealth in serving all the poor people of our village. Bless me so that I can achieve this. He was very pious and he had prayed with deepest feelings. GOD started wondering as this man had put him in difficult situation. He want to serve poor people of Village but nobody in that village was poor. To fulfill his prayer, either GOD had to turn other rich people of village into poor or migrate some other poor people to this village so that this man can serve them.” See the situation in which this man had put GOD into.
See, how people put GOD into so many difficult situations. Imagine if an oncologist prays to GOD for more patients so that he can be rich and successful then what shall GOD do? Shall GOD create more Cancer patients? Imagine a lawyer prays, give me more cases. Now shall GOD create more conflicts so that people sue each other and land up in court with the help of this lawyer?
Another example – “Once upon a time, there was a very pious lady. Once she asked GOD ‘O GOD give me everything in my life’. Later on she got lot of happiness, success but she got sorrow, failures and she had to face difficult situations as well. She then went back to GOD and asked that I asked you to give me everything and see what you did and what you gave. GOD answered “You only asked, give me everything. Now happiness, sorrow, success, failures all come under everything. Word everything encompasses everything.”
This is the reason, we must be aware of our prayers, we must be aware of our words which we choose. We need to be very specific while praying and whatever we asking for.
Remember, if you pray for bad of others then know that it will begin with you first and if you pray for good of others then that also will begin with yourself! Prayers which you do for all are higher than you do for yourself. It encompasses good for all and they are above personal demands.
Good way to begin and end your prayers is with this statement “Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhawantu” means “Let all people be happy, prosperous and blissful” and then proceed with your personal demands if you have any but ensure that you are aware of your words as once GOD says “Tathastu”/”So be it” then you cannot go reverse, as your prayers will for sure manifest!
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