Guest guest Posted March 27, 2002 Report Share Posted March 27, 2002 prayer consumes time.every time given is to be allotted to many given duties so we have time to do everything.that means there is need for time management. prayer sometimes requires mood to pray, if that had not become a habit.to make something a habit , we must repeat the exercise everyday.Habits can easily be followed if they are remembered as falling in a sequence as following something or preceding something.In the olden days in India, women were used to taking betel leaves with chunam, that is calcium, after a meal.If the tongue was redcoated, it meant the new daughterinlaw would be welcomed by her inlaws.in the modern day, people smoke a bidi or a cigarette after a meal.this is a habit , so people do this as coming immediately after a meal.in the olden days, people took bath early in the morning.that is, they would take bath as soon as sun comes up in the east.they must adorn their foreheads as soon as they took their bath.They must sit and pray in front of the home shrine as soon as they adorned their foreheads with vibhuti , the sacred ash or naamam, the white and red lines in a particular order for vaishnavites.They would take their meal after praying.One followed the other as a daily routine.So almost all had time to pray as it was planned as part of the daily routine. in the modern day, we do not provide for a slot for prayer since we have not made prayer as a prerequisite to a meal.Our meals can be taken at all times, whether there is need or not.in fact many take only fast food to show they have no time even to sit down to eat a leisurely meal When can we then pray? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2002 Report Share Posted March 28, 2002 Always think and keep in mind, praying to god is not a push, force, and daily activities or have to keep as a habit. It is a form of responsible as a human being and responsibilities as a Hindu to the creator of the universe (god). Always keep in mind that praying to god is also not base on the mood but is the felling of love to the god. All of can get everything can buy anything with money but not god grace. We can only get the god attention by true faith and pure love. it is done by remembering god anytime and anywhere. There is no specific place or time to pray and also there no specific day to do prayers. All time and all day is auspicious to praise and pray to god. Remember that if you got time to pray, god has time to listen. It is not so late wake up do your job sincerely. Our body is the first temple. So we should keep our body clean, clean mind, speech, listen, see good thing. If you think that very hard to allocate time to do prays. Here is some thing you can do: - Keep in mind that make all activities interesting, enjoyable, mind focus. How to make praying interesting and enjoyable? Learn how to pray first in right manner. Example is the thing that we need for prayers. 1) Clean our body, make this as habit because a clean body can make us have clean and focus mind. 2) Do not wear wet cloth while praying you will commit sin. And do not pray with single cloth you must wear veshti and one more veshti around wrist. You may wear white, red or yellow veshti. 3) Apply vibuthi on your forehead with three finger not one finger (it wrong to apply using one finger). Then apply sandanam with kumkuman. Remember sandanam (lord Shiva) kumkuman (mother shakti) should be together. 4) Now you will look like pandaram or kutty priest. Remember that you are the priest and perform pooja like you are the temple priest. Your home altar is first temple. 5) On the radio play and related devotional song this will make you more prepared and like a booster. 6) Try to remember few basic mantra and as go on learn more mantra. Do not do silently pooja by just showing camphor. Recite the mantra as loud you can. This will create as strong energy (try it you will know) 7) In pooja first light the bathi and sambarani. Then camphor. As you go on will create or your on ways of performing pooja.(it is interesting). 8) Always threat the god as your relatives or friend. Offer them what ever you can. try to do your self . Nice or not nice is second matter. Do it with true faith (100%) god will take your offering. you can also tie flower or garland yourself by recite the god names. it is more powerful method to reach god. 9) Read book on our religion, prayers on related. 10) Try to decorate your home altar. Remember that if you design the god altar with true faith and pure love god will design you future and life. "kaduyul nambinon kaye vitapadaseye" 10) Sit for a while in of the altar sings a simple song to praise god, mediated for few moment and tell what you want and your problem. god only can perform miracle. ALL THIS CAN BE DONE WHETHER IN MORNING OR IN THE EVEVING. AND THE BEST WAY IS BOTH. try all this then you yourself will allocate a time to pray or god will defenetly allocate time for you and listen and take your pooja. Always remember make like interesting first then you will enjoy it. thank you. OM SHAKTI OM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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