whether god is really listening to our prayers

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Namaskarams,

 

God is referred to as Ksheerabdhi Nathan (Lord of Milky Ocean).

 

Our galaxy is Milky Way and it is very nice of our elders to have described

Lord as Universe and as Lord of Milky Ocean.

 

The whole universe is God and our galaxy too. Each step we take or each work

we do is God. "thena vina thrunamapi na chalathi".

Our Society is also our God as we can see in Purusha Suktha.

 

Parabrahman is there with us always and listening to our prayers.

 

 

Thuphal VijayaRaghava Dasan

 

 

 

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Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:53 AM

whether god is really listening to our prayers

 

 

> Priya Bhagawatas,

> Asmadsrigurubhyonamaha!!!

>

> With reference to the following mail, adiyen would like to put forth

> some points

>

> """"

> Sangeetha wrote:

> Hello Everybody,

> Greetings. I am Sangeetha, Vadagalai Iyengar. I have a very basic

> doubt on whether god is

> really listening to our prayers and whether he is with us. I am not able

> to find an answer to

> this. I will be greatful if any one of you could share your mystic

> experiences.

> With Warm Regards

> Sangeetha

> """"

>

> 1. Regarding the first point that 'whether god is really listening to

> our prayers and whether He is with us'; it should be noted that if it

> is not so, one will not only be able to even raise such a question at

> all, but also will not be able to read this messagel itself, because due

> to Him only all the pancha indriyams are working (led by the mind) as

> declared by Himself in Srimadbhagavadgita.

> 2. Though it is very common for most of our minds to assume

> childishness and start questioning the existence/proximity of God when

> some of our silly desires are not fulfilled; it should be remembered

> that God's grace is like a continuous non-stop downpour on every body

> irrespective of one's eligibility/quality , due to which one is able

> to do one or many of the most basic but surviving activities like

> breathe, see, hear, eat, digest, talk, walk, run and what not including

> levelling allegations against Him or even realising the mighty Himself.

>

> 3. Thus it forms the basic responsibility of each and every person

> first to constantly extend one's full gratitude to Him for all the

> favours as referred above (though it may appear basic), He has already

> granted in the past and continuing in the present and the future also

> and there is no scope for accusation/allegations for the missing

> favours.

> 4. While putting to test one's fortunes, if one is able to just

> chant/hear/see the Tirunaamams of the Lord like SriHari, Srikrishna, Sri

> Rama etc then that itself is the biggest fortune one is already

> possessing and there is nothing else other than that one needs to

> aspire for Supreme Bliss. Any other fortune is temporary and

> infinitisimal or of no use in the absence of the Lord's remembrance;

> and Lord's remembrance itself is enough in the absence of any other

> fortune what ever big it may appear.

>

> Jai Srimannarayana

>

> Dr.Kilambi Ramakrishna Ramanuja Dasan

>

>

>

> Oppiliappan

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Priya Bhagawatas,

Asmadsrigurubhyonamaha!!!

 

With reference to the following mail, adiyen would like to put forth

some points

 

""""

Sangeetha wrote:

Hello Everybody,

Greetings. I am Sangeetha, Vadagalai Iyengar. I have a very basic

doubt on whether god is

really listening to our prayers and whether he is with us. I am not able

to find an answer to

this. I will be greatful if any one of you could share your mystic

experiences.

With Warm Regards

Sangeetha

""""

 

1. Regarding the first point that 'whether god is really listening to

our prayers and whether He is with us'; it should be noted that if it

is not so, one will not only be able to even raise such a question at

all, but also will not be able to read this messagel itself, because due

to Him only all the pancha indriyams are working (led by the mind) as

declared by Himself in Srimadbhagavadgita.

2. Though it is very common for most of our minds to assume

childishness and start questioning the existence/proximity of God when

some of our silly desires are not fulfilled; it should be remembered

that God's grace is like a continuous non-stop downpour on every body

irrespective of one's eligibility/quality , due to which one is able

to do one or many of the most basic but surviving activities like

breathe, see, hear, eat, digest, talk, walk, run and what not including

levelling allegations against Him or even realising the mighty Himself.

 

3. Thus it forms the basic responsibility of each and every person

first to constantly extend one's full gratitude to Him for all the

favours as referred above (though it may appear basic), He has already

granted in the past and continuing in the present and the future also

and there is no scope for accusation/allegations for the missing

favours.

4. While putting to test one's fortunes, if one is able to just

chant/hear/see the Tirunaamams of the Lord like SriHari, Srikrishna, Sri

Rama etc then that itself is the biggest fortune one is already

possessing and there is nothing else other than that one needs to

aspire for Supreme Bliss. Any other fortune is temporary and

infinitisimal or of no use in the absence of the Lord's remembrance;

and Lord's remembrance itself is enough in the absence of any other

fortune what ever big it may appear.

 

Jai Srimannarayana

 

Dr.Kilambi Ramakrishna Ramanuja Dasan

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

 

Dear All,

 

Though I know I would be accused of mailing this as a purist, I still

feel that I should go ahead and share my thoughts. Kindly forgive me

if anything is offending(it is not my intent to offend anyone).

 

"Does god listen to our prayers?" - sounds like a good question. But,

before even attempting to answer this question, as a prapannan(at

least I am trying my best to become one) one should revisit some

fundamentals of our sampradayam.

 

Athma-swaroopam(Nature of this self): Athma swaroopam is seshathvam

i.e the service mindedness. That is, god has created us only for his

merriment expecting that we would serve him(as we create computers to

assist us or washing machines to help us). After he created us, he

also gave us two choices: a) To serve him all the time b) To do

whatever we want. Choice (a) wasn't picked up by most of us, because,

as soon as he created us in this materialistic world, we were more

attracted towards his other creations than towards him. Some did

choose option (a) i.e the azhwars, acharyas and other great

bhagavathas. WE, chose option (b) i.e to do whatever we wanted which

was our very first failure. He created us for his enjoyment, but all

that we did to him was just to ignore him and go and pray to him only

when we needed. But, it is actually he, who is waiting for us to

change our minds to serve him. He is waiting for us indefinitely with

equal kindness and expectation across all the jeevathmas in this

entire universe.

 

Kainkaryam:

But instead of understanding that he is praying for us to turn to

him, WE, the unfortunate ones(due to our desires), go and stand

before him and accuse him for anything bad that had happened to us

because of our deeds and pray him for better things to happen. He is

ready to give himself to us to serve him, while, we the narrow

minded, fail to see him. Kaim-karyam(Kainkaryam) is a service that is

offered to him by our will. Do we do that? What do we do for him,

should have been the question. Rather, we have turned the tables

around and are asking him back what he has done to us and why he is

not doing something to us. It is just a matter of minutes. Just close

your eyes for some time and think why we are here. Did he create us

for him, or just created us for the heck of it and let us struggle?

When we open our inner eyes, then we could see the truth which is

never bitter. It is sweet to the core. And once the inner eyes are

open, when you still keep your external eyes closed or not does not

really matter:)))

 

Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jaamaataram Munim

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,

Lakshmi Narasimhan